But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

The journey may be long for those who accept the challenge. And, if you endure the storms along the way the rewards for doing so are that much greater.

One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended

Naomi giggled that same giggle with which Enoch had become infatuated.

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus

That which a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when you don't have to think.

If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

I guess anyone would be nervous to give your life over to someone to make a film about it.

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.