Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

My reputation grows with every failure.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

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.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

The older you get, the better you get.

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.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

We work to become, not to acquire.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

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

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

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