God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Pray, and let God worry.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Snoop ain’t never cosigned me, but I know everybody is like, ‚That’s the next Snoop.‘ Nah, I’m Nipsey, and I got to work to define myself.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

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.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

My wife is already in Heaven.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

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.