The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He's strong enough to make us want to do the right thing.

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.

Believe that God is strong enough to save your children, no matter how you fail.

Idolatry, like all sin, is devastating to the soul. It cuts us off from the comforts of grace, the peace of conscience, and the joy that is to be our strength.

We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.

I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.

I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.

God never encourages self-reliance.

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.

I love nature, so I'd love to go out and just look at things and not care what I look like.

You did not come here to be normal, you came here to be you.

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up.

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.

One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.