Our attempts to trust others will often be frustrated, but that's because God never wanted us to trust others. He wanted us to love others but to trust him alone.

The fruit of the Spirit is not what we can make ourselves do for a moment, But what God makes us to be for a lifetime.

The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.

There is no one that God does not love with all that he is. His love reaches beyond every sin and failure, hoping that at some moment they will come to know just how loved they are.

I am convinced that real community flows out of right relationship with God and not that right relationship with God flows out of right community.

The fact that you don't feel Him [God] holding you doesn't change the fact that He still is.

If you reflect on death, you find the vanity of life.

For if people could see- if women especially could see- what is real and true and how the elegant possession of what is in each of our individual hearts is what matters more than anything.

The thing with breaking up is they leave, but the memories stay.

In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.

Emotion is created by motion. Whatever you're feeling right now is related to how you're using your body.

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.