If we could only put God first, maybe this ugly trend could one day be reversed.

God does not want us to be living in the past, in shame, in fear, or in the future, in worry. He wants us to be living in the present, in now, with Him.

I always knew that God's way was the best, that I wanted to wait, and that I valued purity.

Don't worry about your life cause if you hold it too close you lose it.

I don't think courting and dating is a liability. I actually think it can be a blessing.

I dreamed of being very attracted to my future husband, and I'm extremely attracted to him. I dreamed of having lots of fun together and being able to be goofy and be accepted, that's all there.

Marriage to me means unity, it means strength because I believe that both people can be stronger in their calling because of each other.

Until you find something worth dying for, you're not really living.

I think it takes a truly strong man to cherish a woman.

I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.

Really with marriage, from what I've heard about from different friends that are married, you can't entirely be prepared. There are things you can only learn in marriage.

Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?

It is important to create a family and bring up a child: these things are good and even necessary

Live with grace and dignity. It's a middle finger to the darkness

I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.