No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.

God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.

Whoever created the world went to a lot of trouble. It would be downright rude not to go out and see as much of it as possible.

It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

We're having a traditional Thanksgiving - turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.

If you're with someone you don't exactly trust then you have to watch yourself and that's the hardest thing for an actor not to do, and not listen to yourself as you're talking.

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

Get friends involved. Get the community to take action. Everyone cannot do everything but each of you can do one thing.