God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.