If you demand perfection or nothing, you will always end up with nothing.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd.

The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage.

A day without love is like a day without life.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.

I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

The key point to bear in mind is that Russia cannot be in Europe without Ukraine also being in Europe, whereas Ukraine can be in Europe without Russia being in Europe.