To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards.

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.

Truth may start out timid, but it finishes bold.

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

I think central to what we do is thinking about what's our role, how does this idea of being a band and getting on the stage and playing stuff.

God’s word is the same, yesterday and today and a million years from now.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild by winter.

That which comes easily departs easily. That which comes of struggle remains.

Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away

I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad