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'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 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.

If they aren't going to advance God's kingdom, I don't care to help them advance their kingdom.

Existence, after losing her, would be hell

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

Down through the ages man’s heart has remained unchanged. Whatever the color of his skin, whatever his cultural or ethnic background, he needs the Gospel of Christ.

So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.