Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved by Jesus Himself.

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for.

Regret is a painful thing. Few people understand that there are three important things that leave us and can never return. Words. Time. Opportunity. These are things we can never get back.

I want to shake them for their ignorance and scream that their Sistine Chapel is filled with cracks.

The wooden hairbrush has two practical uses, the bristle side to be used on her silken locks, and the harsh, wooden side to be used on her shapely seat of learning

I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments I need guidance.

You can't decide whom to fall in love with. It just happens.

Sometimes I wish I could just wear the same thing every day. Cartoons do it. It’d make things a lot easier

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.

The film industry is a lovely family and I respect it.