She chose to look at her surroundings where they "think missionary" mind-set.

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now.

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.

She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider.

I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.

My focus was on trying to figure out what God wanted be to do next. Their (his parents') focus was on what I was doing for God at the moment.

My name had become a brand. (I have mixed emotions about that part of our (Christian media) industry, for sure.)

Values are like Jell-O. They take time to set.

I suppose that one’s years spent living do not reflect a measure of our souls or strength of character.

If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year. ... Today should always be our most wonderful day.

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.

I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.

Relationships are like a book, in that they are for learning.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.