Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating.

Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.

brb, ttyl ok? wow, i saved a 'ton' of time with those acronyms.

A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.