From beginning to end, our Christian lives— highs and lows, fasting and fornication— are a tapestry of grace.Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us (p. 31).

Before we apply Joshua to our lives, we need to make sure which side of the Jordan we are living on. Militarism invites God's wrath.

I wonder how many people have been killed, tortured, and in some cases cannibalized, all because certain Christians (mis)applied the book of Joshua to their lives.

Be Happy & Appreciate Every Little Thing You Have/Get Because When You Get The Big Thing, The Happiness Would Be Unbound....

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

Hope is a flower which refuses to be crushed under life's brutal heel.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'

I've always been crazy for the American songbook.

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.