The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.
It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.
A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.
Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you freeto be more like the man you were made to be
I think it was T. S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don’t have a clue what they’re on about.
I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.
A lot of the time writers are just sponges. . . for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.
The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance has faded away to an apologetic whisper. She who one time went out to declare now goes out to inquire. Her dogmatic declaration has become a respectful suggestion, a word of religious advice, given with the understanding that it is after all only an opinion and not meant to sound bigoted. Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its culture, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.
There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!
I am a man for whom the outside world exists.
Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.