In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

Just enjoy the music of life.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Today, most newcomers from film families are launched in outside films.

Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

Unless you have a great deal of purity, it's difficult to retain the higher light.

It's cold out. It's even cold in Florida. So cold today that Katherine Harris put on a third layer of makeup.

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.

When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.

Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection.