Christians are like teabags, you don't really know what they're like until you put them in hot water.

God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking!

The cross is the greatest example of humility and devotion in the universe. Jesus put your needs ahead of His own. He considered you more valuable than Himself.

Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.

Love is giving someone what they need most, when they deserve it least, at great personal cost to yourself.

To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.

God always has and always will look for men and women who say to Him, 'I trust you so much, I'm all in. I want your way not mine. I am willing to live by faith!'

Nothing breaks down barriers and preconceived ideas about 'Christians and Christianity' more than when we treat people the way Jesus treated His enemies.

There is a time to take a stand and there is a time to take your leave.

As you spend time in God's Word and understand his love, the Holy Spirit will create new desires within you to love and serve others like never before.

As we get close to God, he is going to reveal things in our life that aren't pretty. We'll see the patterns of bitterness, anger, manipulation, and hurt that have cycled in our relationships.

Secrets always come up for air. They're never content to stay buried for long.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Every realm of nature is marvelous.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.

Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.

They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.

Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.