Your butt in a pew does not true worship make.

Jesus changes everything about a person’s life, from the obvious to the unseen. He shatters black and white into brilliant color and shakes the asleep until they’re wide awake.

It’s impossible to know what sin is if we don’t know what God says.

Here’s the inevitable truth: our hearts will always find something to worship, and that will motivate how we live.

Any outward acts of worship in a church service must begin in the heart. Right worship starts with right thinking.

Problems don’t get fixed by ignoring them. Putting them off ultimately does more harm than good – all it does is waste time and burden us with stress.

The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.

Be careful of those who kill in Jesus' name; he don't believe in killing at all.

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the favor.

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.