I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

I like to look good, my friend.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

God helps those who help themselves.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Like Frank Sinatra, I’m doing it my way.

I am a Catholic.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

It’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

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

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

God has entrusted me with myself.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I serve God.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

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

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It’s like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.

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

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.