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“Religion is when people try to act good because they're afraid to go to hell. A relationship with Jesus Christ is for people like me who have already been to hell.”
― Brian "Head" Welch

“The most important lesson that we're supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don't learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality)”
― Brian "Head" Welch

“It must grieve God’s heart when he sees Christians fighting about whose doctrine is right; he doesn’t see denominations, he sees one big glorious bride. When Christians argue about doctrinal issues, all he sees is carnal people acting like children. All that prideful, controlling religious crap is what drives young people away from churches, and it has to go. Much of the world’s population is under the age of eighteen, and we have to bring the love of Christ to them without all this controlling crap going on. Because, where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
― Brian "Head" Welch, Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

“The Walk of the Spirit—the Walk of Power by Dave Roberson”
― Brian "Head" Welch, Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

“But then one day I finally realized that screaming at God and begging him to take away my pain wasn’t going work. So I completely surrendered myself and stopped fighting him and I asked him what he wanted me to do. He said: JUST WORSHIP ME. PRAISE ME AND WORSHIP ME THROUGH THE PAIN. And”
― Brian "Head" Welch, Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

“I had a lot of Hell that God needed to squeeze out of me, and believe me, sometimes when the Hell leaves you it screams at God on the way out. And when the pain from your past leaves you, sometimes you have to feel it again on the way out. There's nothing we can say or do that can separate us from God's love.”
― Brian Welch, Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

“There was a battle in my brain—in my soul—and I wasn’t sure who I was going to let win. This wasn’t the drugs talking to me; this was something different. It was almost like—well, it sounds weird—but it was almost like God and the devil were fighting over my soul. Like it was spiritual fight for my life, but it was up to me to make the final choice.”
― Brian "Head" Welch, Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

“It was time for God to do all the work, and it was time for me to be quiet. That’s what got me through those dark times. Because God inhabits the praises of his people (Psalm 22:3), and he was right there with me the whole time. He taught me that the only thing I needed to do was be still and quiet while the pain surfaced, and then I could just cry it away.”
― Brian "Head" Welch, Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

“You see, playing music isn’t work to me—I’d do it for free because being able to create music is a gift in itself. When God filled me with His Spirit after I gave my life to Jesus, I knew I was being given another gift—the most expensive gift that has ever been given. I felt like I’d won the ultimate lottery of the universe. I didn’t have to do anything to get this gift; it was given to me simply because I wanted God. And that free gift made me want to give God everything in my life.”
― Brian "Head" Welch, Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality

“People have asked me, “What’s your favorite part about your ministry to your fans?” My favorite part is that Jesus shows up and shows off. So why not go back to KoRn and hang out with these people? Didn’t Jesus leave all his perfection and beauty from his spiritual paradise at home as a King on his throne to come to the earth to hang out with us dirty, lying, cheating, messed-up, selfish humans? Are any of us better than the fans at KoRn concerts? No! Every single human being on the planet is just as in need of God’s love as the next. We all need Jesus, and my mind has been thoroughly blown away by the fact that I was chosen for this extremely unique call into the metal scene.”
― Brian Welch, With My Eyes Wide Open: Miracles & Mistakes on My Way Back to KoRn

“I also wrote some song lyrics while I was there, and I really felt like God was leading me to write a prophetic song to 50 Cent. One thing to keep in mind before you read these lyrics is that while I believe these words were inspired by God, written through me, to 50 Cent, more importantly I believe the words carry a message to everyone else in this generation, including myself. A message straight to us from God’s heart. Here are some of the lyrics to a song I wound up calling “A Cheap Name”: Wisdom comes through suffering Tell me why’d you let him give you a cheap name? It’s time to come home Playtime’s over now”
― Brian Welch, Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

“The singer for Tool, a guy named Mainard, never really hung out with any of the other bands on that tour, so Jonathan would get drunk and sit outside Tool’s dressing room like a stalker and wait for Mainard to come out so they could hang out together. Eventually he won Mainard over, but together they were a strange pair.”
― Brian Welch, Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

“God and Jennea are the center of my world. Everything I do, I do for them.”
― Brian Welch, Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

“Relax, be at peace, and learn.”
― Brian Welch, Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality

“He would party with us until 6:00 AM and then complain that he had to go work in the emergency room at 9:00 to go do surgery on people.”
― Brian Welch, Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

“The Holy Spirit is poured out like wine on those who give up the desires of the world and crave a real relationship with God.”
― Brian Welch, Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality

“What I feel that God is trying to say to us with Psalm 91:1 in our daily passage is this: all people who learn to live as permanent residents in the secret place of their mind (thoughts) and heart (feelings) with God will be protected and intoxicated with God’s love, remaining stable in a state of rest under the “shadow of the Almighty.”
― Brian Welch, Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality

“I hope every one of you reading this will learn how to forgive and be forgiven. And when the time is right, you will be led back into the lives of the people with whom you desire to be reconciled.”
― Brian Welch, Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality

“Sitting at home that day and listening to her singing, I was thinking about how amazing she was. I was thinking about how she was the cutest person in the world, and how hard it would be to leave her to go back on tour that fall. Then I heard what she was singing. It was a Korn song called “A.D.I.D.A.S.,” which stands for “All Day I Dream About Sex.” These words were coming out of my five-year-old little girl’s mouth, and I knew right then that something had to change.”
― Brian Welch, Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

“Reggie’s was more complicated, as nicknames sometimes are. His first nickname started from me and a couple of friends back in Bako making fun of his big cheeks and big teeth by calling him “Gopher.” He obviously didn’t like that, so we made up this word, “Gar,” and to us it meant “Gopher,” so that’s what we started calling him under our breath. But then he found out what that meant. He was kinda fat back then, so we added “-field” to the end of it and started calling him “Garfield,” like the overweight cartoon cat. Eventually, the “Gar” got dropped and we wound up calling him “Fieldy.”
― Brian Welch, Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

“He had a lot of hell to squeeze out of me, and believe me—when the hell leaves you, sometimes it screams at God on the way out. And when the pain from your past leaves you, sometimes you have to feel it again on the way out.”
― Brian Welch, Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

“And when the pain from your past leaves you, sometimes you have to feel it again on the way out.”
― Brian Welch, Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story