A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.

A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.

Mother is water.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant.

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I try to put as much of myself in every single character that I play.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

I'm usually trying to get back into the dream or analyzing the dream. And yeah, the days, most days begin like that.

It is well to be born either a king or a fool.