Faithful Expression Quotes

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.

I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is one of the reasons, moreover, that the scriptures remain paradigmatic for how we are to write.

I know, if I'm speaking to God in any kind of way, I keep myself from using profanity.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

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

To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

Scripture itself is not systematic; the New Testament shows the greatest variety. God has shown us that he can use any instrument. Balaam's ass, you remember, preached a very effective sermon in the midst of his 'hee-haws.'

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

I just think the way (for instance) evangelicals talk about God or Jesus, as in "Jesus says" or "the Bible says" points up a lack of honesty.

The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.

Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths.

Faith is professed with the lips and with the heart, through words & through love.

When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.

Sometimes I say stuff that people may see things more than what I'm seeing. I just say what God sends me, even if I don't know what I'm talking about or I can't break down the revelation of it. I just take what I receive and put it out there to the people.

The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.

Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

You can often tell the difference between a singer that grows up in the church and one that just can sing. There's a connection to love and support and care. You feel good when you hear it. You feel the people have so much conviction in what they're singing. They believe it, so you believe it.

I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.

A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak. He knows that God is love and that God's presence is felt at the very time when the only thing we do is to love.

Praying actualizes and deepens our communion with God. Our prayer can and should arise above all from our heart, from our needs, our hopes, our joys, our sufferings, from our shame over sin, and from our gratitude from the good. It can and should be a wholly personal prayer.

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists