God calls us first... not to a platform, but to an altar!

God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.

My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.

It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.

True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.

Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.

He [Shakespeare] was a wordsmith who loved to act and to see things from many points of view.(...) His genius lay in being able to see all sides of an argument.

Do not desperately seek refuge in heaven and delve in blissful ignorance

There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

I think it's more funny how every bit of information is up for grabs.

Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. There were three of us, writing to each other.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.