As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house.

Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

Some conversations are not about what they're about.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

I’m not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

I'm swamped with input. I want input, but I am so far behind on what I got here that I can't keep up with what people are sending me.

Not everything was lost in the flow of time

.......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

The film industry is a cyclical business. Even musicals are coming back.

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.