Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.

I’m really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like as a performer, a lot of times you live for everyone else’s applause. That’s a dangerous thing within the church or outside the church.

There are tears that shine like a smile, sobbing like a sunrise for the truth.

The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

I have horrible acting ability. I can only be one thing and that's it. So for better, for worse, that's all I've got to offer is me. I've got nothing else.

If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.