I know that a man is converted when he starts to sing

It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.

Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.

We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.

I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before believed, but through Jesus Christ I'm more loved and accepted than I ever dared hope.

Death for the Christian is to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus and waking up and finding out that you're home.

What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them!

When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.

Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.

You don’t know who you are until you know God and you don’t know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.

It takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.

You are a bubble in the ocean of life that has come to enjoy the glints of the morning light.

Self-healing requires tremendous action, a willingness to go beyond the normative to discover something transcending.

Shared history was the coin of the realm.

The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

Believe in and follow your dreams.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself.

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education.