- "I wanna dream up a world i wanna live in, I wanna spray it on a building downtown, I wanna protest with patience and a paycheck ‘cause there’s got to be a better way."
- "everyone’s telling the truth in languages that nobody speaks till you listen close and hear what you believe."
- "I repent, I repent of my pursuit of America's dream, I repent, I repent of living like I deserve anything. I repent, I repent of parading my liberty. I repent. I repent of paying for what I get for free. repent judging by a law that even I can't keep, of wearing righteousness like a disguise to see through the planks in my own eyes. I repent, I repent of trading truth for false unity. I repent, I repent of confusing peace and idolatry, by caring more of what they think than what i know of what we need by domesticating you until you look just like me. I am wrong and of these things I repent."
- "when love, love, love is what we should be known for. love, love, love -it’s the how and it’s the why we live and breathe and we die."
- "I'm robbing Peter, I'm paying Paul. I'm changing my name back to Saul. I got to them and you know they'll get to you. I'm turning shepherds into sheep and leaders into celebrities. It's holy sabotage, just look around you. 'Cause everything's for sale in the 21st century, and the check is in the mail from the 21st century. Don't want a song, I want a jingle. I love you, Lord, but don't hear a single and the truth is nearly impossible to rhyme, but I know the songs with all the hooks and I know some lies that will sell some books, so grab 'em fast, I'm running out of time. Just keep selling truth in candy bars, on billboards and backs of cars. Truth without context, my favorite of all my crimes."
- "What looks like failure is success and what looks like poverty is riches. When what is true looks more like a knife, it looks like you're killing me, but you're saving my life. But I give myself to what looks like love, and I sell myself for what feels like love, and I pay to get what is not love, and all because I see things upside down."
- "'cause if you really believed what you say you believe, you wouldn't be so damned reckless with the words you speak. you wouldn't silently consent when the liars speak, denying all the dying of the remedy."
- "'cause we can talk and debate til we're blue in the face about the language and tradition that He's coming to save. and meanwhile we'll sit just like we don't give a shit about fifty thousand people who are dying today."
- "don't teach me about moderation and liberty, I prefer a shot of grape juice. don't teach me about loving my enemies. don't teach me how to listen to the Spirit, just give me a new law. I don't wanna know if the answers aren't easy, so just bring it down from the mountain to me, I want a new law."
- "and I am like a mockingbird, I've got no new song to sing. and I am like an amplifier, I just tell you what I've heard."
- "there are two great lies that I've heard: 'the day you eat the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die' and that Jesus was a white, middle-class Republican and if you wanna be saved you have to learn to be like Him."
- "my first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man. my first allegiance is not to democracy or blood. it's to a king and a kingdom."
- "here in the West, we want to follow You. we speak the language and we keep all the rules, even a few we made up. come on and follow me, but sell your house, sell your suv, sell your stocks, sell your security and give it to the poor."
- "peace by way of war is like purity by way of fornication. it's like telling someone murder is wrong and then showing them by way of execution."
- "the truth is never sexy, so it's not an easy sell. you can dress her like the culture, but she'll shock 'em just as well."
- "so could you love this bastard child though I don't trust you to provide? with one hand in a pot of gold and with the other in your side. I am so easily satisfied by the call of lovers less wild, that I would take a little cash over your very flesh and blood."
- "may the bread on your tongue leave a trail of crumbs to lead the hungry back to the place that you are from."
- "go, and go far. take light deep into the dark. believe what's true. He uses all, even you."
- "I am the kiss of Your betrayer, but I've got Your grace on every layer."
- "I found a lobbyist in the devil, but I got salvation in a rebel."
- "my life looks good I do confess, you can ask anyone, just don't ask my real good friends because they will lie to you or worse, they'll tell the truth. because there are things you would not believe that travel into my mind. I swear I try to capture them, but always set 'em free. it seems bad things comfort me. good lord, I am crooked deep down."
- "I am not water but I'm not wine. you could say I'm just here for the party with one thing on my mind -squeezing me and my camel through that needle's eye."
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