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.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

I’ve never had writer’s block.

Now, we can’t stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time – if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.

Our best thoughts come from others.

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

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Christians are not limited to any church.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

No man was ever wise by chance.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

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

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

I have to be seen to be believed.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

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

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.