The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.

My characters are not plastic.

A vagrant is everywhere at home.

I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

Every human being has creative powers. You were born to create. Appreciate your inborn potential.