"My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them."
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"You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong."
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"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater."
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"God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them."
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"In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves."
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"Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed."
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"As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both."
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"When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life."
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"Music can change the world because it can change people."
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"Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building."
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"The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this."
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"The job of art is to chase ugliness away."
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"Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will."
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"I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that."
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"Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later"
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"You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing."
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"It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw."
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"When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see."
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"Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it"
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"Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today."
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