Happiness is the sense that one matters. Happiness is an abiding enthusiasm. Happiness is single-mindedness. Happiness is whole-heartedness. Happiness is a by-product. Happiness is faith.

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.

We tend to find what we look for in other people.

Everybody has a problem, is a problem, or lives with a problem.

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

Nothing happens by mistake the universe has a divine plan...Stay attuned to it.

I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.

I don't know where it's all going to lead. I have no idea where I'm going. I would just like to be happy.

It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.

There are so many dimensions in my music, and I think mostly what people hear is hope - the describing of experiences and the wonders of life

This message (that attempting to beat the market is futile) can never be sold on Wall Street because it is in effect telling stock analysts to drop dead.

Since most corporate competitors have the same problems with sustainability and social reputation, it's worth trying to solve them together.