Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.Almost.It is death by living.

Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.

God's big enough that small doesn't matter.

We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.

I listened to you tell me, tell everyone, and all the world, “Praise the Lord.” You were broken, but not by bullets and bombs. You were broken by grace.

A sure way to go broke is to spend your outer riches before you have saved enough of your inner ones.

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

You know the awkward class photo when you're sitting there for your school picture and you're 14 or something and you've got braces, and you don't know how to smile, and you've got a hard-on.

Sharon Needles. Did I meet you at the free clinic?

Everybody’s afraid of something.

Hire disrespectful people.