“One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.”

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.

The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.

As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.

If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.

The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.

Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.

If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.

We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.

It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.

It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.

Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.

Don’t work harder than your competition, be your own competition.

My new single ‘I’m Gonna show you crazy’ is really about knowing it’s okay to not be okay.

We’re always hardest on our own work, I guess.

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

We are all one – and if we don’t know it, we will learn it the hard way.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

It’s always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.