Prayer puts God in the position He deserves - that of King, Governor, Benign Controller, Possessor, Lord, and Master.

The promises of prayer are extraordinary, but for prayer to work as God promises it to work, it must be purged of self and doubt.

No matter how outlandishly audacious your prayers might sound in your own ears, they are nothing in light of God's willingness and ability to answer.

Prayer is not first and foremost talking to God, it's first and foremost listening to God.

Whenever your focus is on doing what you want and making yourself feel good, you can be confident that the Spirit of God is not the one leading the way.

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.

Can a broken cisterns hold water?

I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.

Think rich, look poor.

There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

There's only one way to prep, so far as I know. You have your script, you hire the people you want, you find your locations and your setups, everybody shows up and you shoot the film.