Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

The weak can't bear to face their weaknesses in the presence of our strength.

This is probably going to be one wound that can never be healed.

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.

Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

I'm at the halfway point of shooting .

Donald Trump really is who he is, and I think, for example, he'll probably tweet his entire life - and that's a fact. I just hope people get over it.

I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'