His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.

Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.

The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.

Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.

We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.

Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.

Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How do you fill the space between, "God says it, " and, "I believe it, "?

The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.

The Bible provocatively evokes desire.

Blessing and obedience do comfortably and mysteriously coexist.

Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge.

What you think determines your outlook on life. What you do determines your destiny.

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

I'm down with just the Backstreet Boys.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

I want you to admit just once what you feel for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry for anything.

For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.

I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar!

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.