I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‚Joanne,‘ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

I don’t believe in endorsing a product that you don’t want to endorse.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.