Quotes from Steve Brown

If you use the law to judge others, go ahead, but don't assume that your judgment mimics the judgement of God.

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.

I find myself laughing a lot. Every time I remember that I'm forgiven and loved (that I have unlimited free sins and blank checks), I get the giggles. In fact, Christians are the only people on earth who have something significant to laugh about.

If Jesus said we're free, we ought to accept his declaration at face value and run with it. It ought to help us define ourselves. But it doesn't. Christians will do almost anything to get away from the simple meaning of the word and the wonderful experience of freedom.

You are really and truly and completely free.

Too many of us have come to believe in a God who is a child abuser, a God who demands that we go through hell to get to heaven.

Until a Christian struggles with the issue of freedom, he or she will remain frightened, obsessive, and bound.

Our freedom has been taken away because we thought that we couldn't be free unless we were perfect.

Whenever a new Christian comes into the church, I wince a bit, because I'm afraid that they will get the "religion disease," that the "church virus" will kill off the joy and freedom Jesus purchased on the cross to give them.

Forgiveness is at the very heart of the Christian faith. It's not about getting better, becoming more religious, or following the rules so God will love you. It's all about forgiveness, dummy! Everything else is secondary. If we don't keep the main thing the main thing, then everything else will turn sour on us.

Do you want to know what God is like? Then look at Jesus. If you want to know how God reacts to people, look at how Jesus reacted to people. If you want to know what God thinks, how he acts and who he is, don't get with a group of people and vote on it. One doesn't discover divine truth with an election. If you want to know the truth about God, don't get a book on theology, listen to a preacher, or even read a book like this one. For God's sake, go to Jesus.

It's not very smart to keep trying to do something you can't do and never will be able to do.

Perfectionism robs you of your freedom.

God will not only love you if you don't get better; he will teach you that getting better isn't the issue. His love is the issue.

Our honest belief that we can be far better than we are is one of the major reasons we are so bound.

There really is something neurotic about Christians who spend most of their time trying desperately to please a God who is already very pleased. They don't have any freedom, and they sometimes take away the freedom of others.

Jesus invited us to a dance … and we've turned it into a march of soldiers, always checking to see if we're doing it right and are in step and in line with the other soldiers. We know a dance would be more fun, but we believe we must go through hell to get to heaven, so we keep marching.

I can think of hardly anything that will kill your joy and freedom more than wearing a mask geared to get others to accept you because you are acting like them.

But we did the best we could and in the end some of us had to get day jobs and start fresh.

We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did our manager and booking agent at the time, that we have really exhausted it, and we can't make money at this anymore.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

No it wasn't at the time cause you have to remember, I had been playing clubs since I was 13.

I think people are sick and tired of all the abuse songs, and drug addiction, we want to bring to world a big fat smile.

We have an amazing fan base all around the world that love 40FT.