[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

The important thing is not the size of your faith - it is the One behind your faith - God Himself.

Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!

Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!

Something GOOD is going to happen to you today.

God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

Loving what you do is the secret to everything.

at points in our lives, we have to choose the hills we’re willing to die on.

God loves His people despite their sins and faults.

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious of the truth.

Make a game out of practice, you're still a child at heart

Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry Cry Cry," went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record.

Democracy was assassinated here when Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. And who brought democracy back to this country? We are the ones who did that after pushing out the dictatorship in 1997.

With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.

One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this.