Our schedules are so hectic we can't get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constantly looking for something to amuse us. We are the most frantic generation in history—and also the most entertained. The Bible tells us that both extremes are wrong.

Nothing in our lives takes God by surprise.

How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, racism, poverty, sickness, or suffering?

The one who made the Ford knew how to make it run. God made you and me, and He alone knows how to run your life and mine. We could make a complete wreck of our lives without Christ.

The journey God has set before us isn't a freeway; we are constantly encountering forks and junctions and crossroads. Which way will we go when we meet them? Life is filled with decisions, and we can't avoid them.

Man persists in waywardness. If one institution fails [he says], try another—anything but God's plan.

God created us free to choose how we would live... but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences.

The destiny of your own soul is in your own hands by the choice you make.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny

Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.