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?‘

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you’re always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

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

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that’s a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that’s the thrill in fashion.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

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

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

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too!

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

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.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.

Every day I pray about all I do.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

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

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.