Our weakness is an invitation to discover God's strength.

Tough times don't define you, they refine you. ‪

Most people like it when the pastor says, "family is priority." What they don't like very much is when the pastor actually chooses his own family as the priority over them.

Going to church is a beautiful act of humility. You are saying to the world, "I need God and His family.

It's not the amount of Bible you read, it's the amount of Bible you believe.

Jesus is more interested in your heart than your ministry.

Jesus did not die just to save you from hell. He paid the price to give you all of heaven.

Dear Church, everyone is broken, stop pretending like you're not.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

A love you always have to fight for isn't worth it

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

I keep the "ThunderCats" thermos safely in the kitchen.

I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.

Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

Its interesting, the things you learn when youre 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if youre not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

The essence of how God thinks and feels is wholehearted love.

I've never seen anyone sleep with their head hanging off the back of a wooden chair before - was the couch not comfortable enough for you?