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I need music like I need water.
I'm going to live what I believe
All I ever have to be is what you made me.
Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.
The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.
Heaven plants a special seed, and we must have faith.
Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.
I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.
I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.
Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.
I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.
Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.
For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.
It takes a little time sometimes To get your feet back on the ground.
The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.
The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.
There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.
If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.
I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.
The song 'Baby Baby,' I so love that song because I wrote it about my first daughter.
I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.
Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.
If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.
Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?
I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.
I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.
But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.
You do your best, you do all this stuff, but the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all kinds of music.
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.
The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.
I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.
If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.
Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.
I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.
I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.
When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smiling, and all the children are frowning.
If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.
I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just enjoy the day you're in. Really make the most of it.
What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.