Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God: His purposes become our own.

Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God’s will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.

Not only do our prayers please God, the Holy Spirit uses them to accomplish heaven’s purpose on earth.

We are not to mimic witches spicing their caldrons with a little eye of newt and tail of squirrel when we add Jesus’ name to our prayers.

Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.

His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.

Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good.

We sin not because we do not love Christ at all but because we don’t love him above all.

Sin gains power over us not by its indomitable force but by our divided heart.

God has given his law so that we will experience, not earn, the good he intends for our lives.

Someone must stand up to confront and dissipate darkness.

I got a little tattoo on my face, I'll never be able to work another real job so I consider that to be kinda forcing myself to stick to music.

In love, be willing to fight for them, but never compete.

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.

Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.

Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.