You're learning things. As you get older, you're experiencing them. You learn about what it means to be sacrificial. Then, you get married or something like that and you think, "Oh, wow! This is the real deal."

Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?

I would say you've got to find your identity in God - in God alone - because everything else is a false sense of identity. He's the one who made you, he's your designer and your work and your value is found in him and not in anything or anyone else.

We all need grace in the face of each other.

If we can't come together, and have conversations and understand our biases and understand that hate, none of us are really the good guys here.

Don't use time and words carelessly - neither can be retrieved.

It's such a phenomenon for a hip-hop artist to fully embrace his Christian roots and his faith. And that becomes something that people almost need you to justify.