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“I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.”
“I never thought of myself as handsome.”
“When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.”
“Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.”
“I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.”
“I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.”
“I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models.”
“There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.”
“There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.”
“My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.”
“I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life.”
“When somebody comes to your front door, and they're screaming obscenities at you and telling you to come outside, and you've had your life threatened several times, you take it pretty seriously. It's the reason I have a Rottweiler.”
“I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.”
“When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.”
“It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.”
“I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.”
“I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.”
“We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.”
“I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.”
“There's a tendency for people to think that celebrities do whatever they want, spend whatever they want, and it's completely out of control. While some of that may be true, I've never met a celebrity who threw caution to the wind and thought they could do anything. That's not the thought process.”