God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us.
I guess we're all one phone call from our knees
The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.
If you make people think they're thinking they'll like you, but if you make people actually think, then watch out, you're not going to be popular.
There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.
Trying to find a heart that's not walking away.
My artistic goal was to write something that's one hundred percent real and true to me and to this world. I tried to touch on truths that really connect with people from every avenue of life. Ultimately, when you write from a vantage point of faith, humility and openness to the world around you, people have to respond because those same truths are instilled in them. Honestly, I don't have any agenda other than being sincere, real, and passionate about these songs and the music I make.
My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal.
Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity.
Sometimes it’s all you can do,” he murmured. “Fight back; run wild, until you get it all out. ” “Sometimes there is nothing to fight and nowhere to run.
Laughter in the face of danger is a mark of courage.