"You have to have courage to be obedient to God."

"On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say."

"If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit."

"God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour."

"That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately."

"You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea."

"You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome."

"Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice."