God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

Hope is strength of soul.

Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest.

Like the fragrance of a flower, our actions reveal the beauty of your life.

If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.

If you have butterflies in your stomach ask them into your heart.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

I am not indifferent to the appreciation of kind people. [The voters were] extremely kind in naming me the world's top public intellectual, a title to which I can never see myself as entitled.

If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

I remember our conversations [with Zachary Quinto] always being frustrated that we weren't doing what we wanted to do, but also filled with the determination that we were going to overcome that.