We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.
I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.
I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.
I think there's a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they've got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist bec...
I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff.
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.
The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no such thing. There's rap, and there's music.'
Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way. And I grew up in rap and movies the same way.
I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.
HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
