Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian

How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.

My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.

Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.

Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel.

Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.

True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

There is nothing more important to learn about Christian growth than this: Growing in grace means becoming like Christ.

Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you

The fear of the Lord tends to take away all other fears... This is the secret of Christian courage and boldness.

The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.

Maybe it's a green thing or a wolf thing or a short-circuit thing. I don’t seem to know anything.

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.

Are you going to wolf out and eat me now?" "Certainly not, you'd be stringy and hard to digest." "But kosher." "I'll be sure to point any Jewish lycanthropes in your direction.

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.