When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

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.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

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 is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

I never say I am a guru.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Observe all men, thyself most.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I have wasted my hours.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Lord, help my poor soul.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.