Faith is the refusal to panic.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.

With you, it's different. I can see the rest of my life before my eyes and that scares me a little. Men don't tame my wild heart but somehow I crossed your path and have never been the same since.

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us.

If I can make a career for myself after Harry Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

A woman is as young as her knees.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.

Reality is a powerful solvent.