Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy.

Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them.

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

If you leave you leaving the best, so you would have to settle for less.

Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should or should not be exposed to?

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

I love the interrelatedness of things.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.