There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it.

Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you

In the gospel, we discover we are far worse off than we thought, and far more loved than we ever dreamed.

God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting.

I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now.

Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

Out of these ashes beauty will rise.

the worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth.

You have to be able to look objectively at the problem, deflating the emotional part of it.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

Leadership is all about people … and getting the most out of people.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators all, and I recommend to you this moral: In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.

I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.