Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.

My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.

God is awesome; he doesn’t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

Many have knowledge and only few have wisdom.

Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.

But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell is over.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

Novelists never have to footnote.

The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

I'm kind of bipolar in my acting choices because I just want to do a little bit of everything.