To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

Some Christians need encouragement to think before they act. Others need encouragement to act after they think.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.

The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.

Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.

You are truly living when you have inner peace. You are far away from the beauty of life when you are fighting a war.

Nobody had been more surprised than Jack to discover that when he was happy, he wanted to make others happy. What a soggy lot of rubbish, but there you had it.

If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I'd think twice about you, someone I never even cared for?

Music is your own experience your thoughts your wisdom. If you don't live it it won't come out of your horn.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves.

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.