I don't see the point in being a star - it takes a lot of energy to carry yourself off as being more perfect than somebody else. I'd rather just be available with all my weaknesses.

I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

Don't ask me for answers, I've only got one. That a man leaves the darkness, when he follows the Son.

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.

Look deep inside, and when you locate the sadness, give it a vacation, and focus on the simple things.

I think we should all be servants. To be really great in God's eyes is to be least among each other and serve each other.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian.

I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

Can you revive wilted tulips?

Life can be compared to fishing, you can get anything you want, as long as you use the right bait.

The Lord is the strength of my heart.

What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

Snooty knew measly talked muchly.

I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance too, but it hurts now!

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one.

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.