At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.

Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too.

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

Even Christian—the poster child for "smartass"—looked grim.

The president of the United States is a pretty important position, and it's the ideas and policies that matter to me, not the color of their skin.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead