Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

I’m Power Because LOVE is Power.

I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else's.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

I feel like people might be slightly less inclined to hate me as much as they did in the past, and I think part of that is selling fewer records.

To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.