Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

The cost of redemption cannot be overstated. The wonders of grace cannot be overemphasized. Christ took the hell He didn't deserve so we could have the heaven we don't deserve.

For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.

How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?

Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.

If you waste a minute, you have wasted life and if you waste an hour, you have wasted life.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted.

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.

I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane.

I want to see how far I can train. I have to see how far my body will go.

Would you pick me? I am so much my own agent, it would be - its inconceivable.