Death carries with it a certain dread. It [is] the enemy, the great, mysterious monster that makes people quake with fear.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

Do you ever wish, Alexis, that your heart was just that little bit smaller, so that you didn't have to care quite so much?

To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

First to become capable of love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.

I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.

Somebody sent me their tooth, which I now wear as an earring. It's a molar, I think. I love it when people send me body parts.