No life is messier than one in ministry

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

In my opinion, Jesus is God's attempt to reach man. But while I believe Jesus is the way to God, it makes no sense to hate people who disagree.

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

Christianity is not a religion, it’s a relationship with God through Christ.

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened

Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.

I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.

The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.

Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.