We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

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

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

I write some country music. There’s a song called ‚I Hope You Dance.‘ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

A word after a word after a word is power.

As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you’re looking for a pediatrician.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

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 got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

Every day I pray about all I do.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

It’s disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There’s no bravado to any of it; it’s just a disgusting little trick.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

I went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?