“What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.”

When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.

We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.

If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

We talk so much about one’s rights so little about what is actually right.

Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God’s presence during dark seasons of questioning.

Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite… never satisfied.

There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.

The Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it.

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.

The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.

When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so destructive. This is at the heart of the human predicament, and the Scriptures call this condition sin.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.

What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.

The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.

I’m kind of a good girl – and I’m not. I’m a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I’m a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That’s what the stories in my music do.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

My music is me letting the world know how confident I am in myself, and me basically telling other women, and guys, how confident and how comfortable I believe they should be.

The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.