Matthew Quotes

By their fruits ye shall know them.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.

As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.

What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?

I think that the internet is a beast of burden.

The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

Let your life be guided by greatness

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine.

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

We try to make the sound hold as much relevance as it does on the record you know, we don't try and interpret it in a different way.

That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

Days of trouble must be days of prayer.

I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.

I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

In terms of relationships, women often completely over-estimate the confidence of men, and forget about needing to feel validated.

Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.

Exercise is an absolute must. Period. That doesn't mean I'm a gym junkie - it just means that I have to get a few days doing something physical a week, even just for my mental sanity.

I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.

Your job is to point that rifle into the other guy's face and shoot him dead.

If you must make a difference in life, then change your mind set.

Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.

Life is when awareness hides in the idea of personal experience.

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

Who's going to save rock 'n' roll? It's so silly. Remember like in '86 or '87 and synthesizers were going to take over the world? And remember "rocktronica" in 1997? It's ridiculous.

What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.

So many characters are governed by the consequences of their actions, and I wanted to have a character who is the exact opposite.

Color is the thing I'm best known for. If people pigeonhole me, so what? Long live the pink dress!

I love the arts, and enjoy going to the art museum whenever I get a chance.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity.

They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.

I'm not going to / let a little thing like the world stand in my way. / Why should I? I understand it / as much as I understand penguins / and I still go to the zoo.

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that.

I am the life just passing through. I'm what remains and so are you.

He climbs highest who helps another up.

Sanctification is not regeneration.

Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

France has given us the best filmmakers and food.