Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.

Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.

The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.

A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.

Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings.

Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.

Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more like heaven.

We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.

All stories are the sin of their weaver.

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

I haven't actually studied acting at all.

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.

She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.

You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing.