If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.

The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.

Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.

There is no conceivable situation in which it is not safe to trust God.

Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have on our own.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

2-0 is a cricket score in Italy

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

We ask for forgiveness. And we forgive others who ask us. In that way we can experience healing, healing in our souls.

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that.

Without liberty I have nothing left to use except my body.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological.