Only the redeeming, all-powerful, transforming grace of God can raise our sin-besotted heart from the dead, give us eternal life, and set our gaze on Jesus, our blessed hope.

What would our hospitality look like if we believed that Jesus’s death on the cross was the measure of God’s compassion for someone?

I need God’s grace and something baked with peanut butter and chocolate.

Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about.

it is contrary to our natural logic that God would choose to use the foolish and the weak to show himself to be wise. We have difficulty seeing how God is praised through our insufficiencies

A faith that is not tested is never proved trustworthy.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough.

I played every bad guy in Shakespeare.

I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.