Encouragement is like oxygen to the human spirit. Don't forget you're carrying someone else's air. Encourage them; help them breathe.

Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.

Every dream has a process and a price tag. Those who embrace the process and pay the price, live the dream. Those who don't, just dream.

The quickest way to release heaven on earth is to worship. Worship is the main activity of heaven and the destiny of all created things.

You were born to overcome. You are not destined to lose.

We're no longer slaves to fear. That doesn't mean we're emotionless now, or never face fear, it just means we don't have to obey it.

What is South Africa’s sound? What are they supposed to bring that ignites the rest of the body of Christ around the globe?

I'm sweetly broken, wholly surrendered.

Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.

Would we believe their story of the dead, when they return?

It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility.

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

Friends are an intersection. A route back to the world.

I think the most important thing is that everybody is happy creating, and doing what they want to do, and have really great relationships with each other.

O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils

You've got to be in the moment and respond to what you're feeling. I try to simplify it as much as possible.