A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.

In altered states of consciousness, the nervous system itself becomes a ‘sixth sense’ that produces a variety of images including entoptic phenomena.

How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us.

There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America.

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

One of the things I liked about my character in 'Run' is that she can just disappear into the background if she wants, which is what I'm like.

Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.