My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

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.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.

If you improve 1% a day, then in 100 days, guess what? You're 100% better.

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.

So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)

Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."