Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.

The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.