When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.

God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.

Much is known by reading, more is mastered by doing.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.

I'm sharing my experience with my body with my fans, and that's why they relate to me so much.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.

I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

And all that we built, and all that we breathed And all that we spilled or pulled up like weeds Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.