I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.

Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.

I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.

Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith.

The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.

In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I feel it or not.

I knew, as soon as I woke up, that the dream had come from God and it was about the reality of Jesus. The truth of Him. The He was a person whose pronouns you had to capitalize. That He was God.

I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions.

At the end of the day, it's nice to walk away from a set knowing that you're doing a movie that is not just for money and is not just pure entertainment.

Curation comes up when search stops working.

Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.

What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.

There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.

There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!