Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

What is real is beyond all reach.

Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well.

Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.

What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?

World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom

We cannot effectively pursue holiness without the Word of God stored up in our minds where it can be used by the Holy Spirit to transform us. Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace, 180

There's only one way to become an eagle, and that's to be born an eagle.

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.

On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated

Plan what you are going to wear ahead of time. If you're going to an important dinner, you should always plan what you're going to wear because you don't want to look silly.

I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is.

I don't think a lot of people are like, "I'm just quirky!" Or if they are, it's a stage they're going through as they figure out who they are. I never felt like I was choosing roles that were quirky.