It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
I started out doing covers.
There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.
The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7. 14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.
Go on, now, go. Walk out the door. Just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore. Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with 'goodbye?' Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? I will survive.
I have been to more than 80 countries, and there is not one-not one-that I didn't have women coming up to me sharing stories of overcoming major abuse, a bad marriage turning good, etc.
All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.
I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Pride is a terrible and dangerous thing. It can take so many forms; it can even assume the appearance of humility. Pride can lead not only to self-exaltation, but also to self-abasement. The key to battling pride is not found in struggling against thinking too highly of ourselves or in striving to think of ourselves as lowly. The key is found in simply not thinking about ourselves at all, but setting our minds on Christ and the needs of others.
We are not called upon to do all the good possible, but only that which we can do.