I think "HALLELUJAH" translates into "HALLELUJAH" in every language out there.

My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.

God is awesome; he doesn’t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.

The world is an arena where things represents things. It is a stage where the same thing is seen from different lenses as a different thing.

If you want to win, drop the past trends. Genius creates new trends and the crowd follows the past.

There's no business like show business.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

I want a regular pay cheque.

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.