I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

This is not a bad life.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Obama’s policies have been approximately the same as Bush’s, though there have been some slight differences, but that’s not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush’s policies.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

If you want to live in the fullness of God’s anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

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

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.