We magnify Him who is worthy above all others and adore Him simply because of who He is.

Worship changes the worshiper into the image of One worshiped

Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His redemptive purposes on earth.

Breakthrough happened around me when breakup happened within me.

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

The Bible is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God.

Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the Lord!

The resource from which God gives is boundless, measureless, unlimited, unending, abundant, almighty, and eternal.

Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion...singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God's grace and goodness.

Worship is about encounter-coming into God's presence

In every storm there is a 'Peace! Be still' Christ will speak where prayer's call invites Him.

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

You are more powerful and intelligent than you think.

Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about usually comes out in your writing.

It's tough now to meet a girl who wants to hang out with you because she likes your personality - who hasn't seen you on TV and is like, 'Hey!'

It must be a hard thing, to be a father; living in fear that your daughter would meet a boy she liked, but also having to worry if she didn't.

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.