Prayer is first and foremost an act of love

Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.

Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.

So, what are you?" "What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful.

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.

I don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil.

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.