We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.

This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus

People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.

Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.

Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

People who claim to be Christians while their lives look no different from the rest of the world are clearly not Christians

The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.

A careless risk undertaken thoughtlessly or in pursuit of a thrill is recklessness, but a hazard confronted for the glory of God is a different matter altogether.

We're the worst band in America... That makes us the best.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Inoculate yourself from dangerous bozos.

To those of you looking at photos I took with my husband years ago in the privacy of our home, hope you feel great about yourselves.

He who love touches walks not in darkness.

Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.

You're surfing with all this glamour, and a lot of people are talking about Gwyneth, JLo, and Cameron.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.