You are not alone in the world. You are part of an ensemble.

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground

Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours.

We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us — and this is remarkable — the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.