We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'

Whatever God wants to do through you, He will do in you first. You've got to be what you want to see.

I've discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God's Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God's purpose is to make us one with Himself.

I'm not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.

If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.

America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.

Think of a caterpillar entering a cocoon. Once he does so, one of two things will happen: He will either transform into a butterfly, or he will die. But no matter what else happens, he will never climb out of the cocoon as a caterpillar. So it is with your protagonist.

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.