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.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Even though I’ve been putting out bodies of work for years, ‚Beauty Behind the Madness‘ felt like the beginning.

I have to be seen to be believed.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

We are eternal beings – spirit children of heavenly parents.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that’s not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

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.

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

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I love good, loud speakers.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Rap was my drug.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.