To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

My mom definitely inspires me. She's just crazy when it comes to her fashion sense.

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.

Roger Federer is stylish.

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.

I always think everything is going to be my last job so every single day is a gift. This whole life is an accident for me.

If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.

If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.