My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?
I believe God will make a way.
Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.
Train our children to love God.
Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.
The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.
The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.
We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.
There was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that he was their proper Messiah.
Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.
O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send.
Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.
When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.
Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.