The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. It was those quiet moments alone when I just hated the person I had become.

We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.

I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it.

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

No one is an inventor in the fashion business. Designers recreate fashion.