Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

Paradise is not a place, it’s a state of mind.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

I'm not a person who can spontaneously say funny things.

I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

[Working with Meryl Streep] I just felt like I was shaving years off my discovery as an actress to realize, "Okay, that's what this feels like."

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.