Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.
As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.
People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.
The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of guilt and need and helplessness; and this is just what you do not like about it.