He who is called of God, walks directly contrary to what he did before.

By having a change wrought in thee. 'But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified.' I Cor 6: 2: Whence we are changed, a tenebris ad lucem [from darkness to light], so changed, as if another soul did live in the same body. By this change we are interested in the unchangeable

This is a sign of a new nature: when a man hates what he once loved! And because he hates sin, therefore he fights against it with the "sword of the Spirit" (Eph 6:17), as a man who hates a serpent seeks the destruction of it.

Love not the world" (1 John 2:15). Many would like to be godly, but the honors and profits of the world divert them. Where the world fills both head and heart—there is no room for Christ.

Worldly business often crowds into our duties, and while our mouths are speaking to God, our hearts are thinking of the world:

Why does he send war and epidemics? What does the heat of this great anger mean? Surely dying times are to make men die to the world.

God made the world only as a dressing room to dress our souls in. He sent us here on the grand errand of godliness.

I am normally the manly-ish girl on the planet.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.'

Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being an observant Jew, but in a conceptual way, for me, they go together real well.