The genuiness of our worship cannot be measured in decibels of sound, and although it is vital that we express our love for God vocally, He looks to see the evidence in our lives.

My Lord, what love is this that pays so dearly. That I, the guilty one, may go free!

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

Worship is God's enjoyment of us and our enjoyment of him.

To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all rivals to his authority.

He turns our weaknesses into His opportunities

Jump high brother!! So high that if you fall, then people should remark on not how far you fell but how high you jumped

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.

A lot of people have a particular song that, no matter their mood, turns them on. With me, it's Eleanor Rigby.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.

It's not enough to say we need to love each other, you have to go behind that and say we need to change these policies, we need to fight, we need to protest, we need to agitate for change.

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.