Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.

Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

I like movies that have strong personalities, and Michel Gondry is so creative that his films are always something special to watch.

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.

Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.

When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.

Everybody has something wrong with them.

I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.