Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.

I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.

The Christian faith is faith in Christ. Its value or worth is not in the one believing but in the One believed - not in the one trusting, but in the One trusted.

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

Action and adaptability create opportunity.

Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.

Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.