We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don’t line up with God’s Word, you’ll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

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.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

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.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

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.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

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.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.