Our beliefs about the sources of joy are frequently experienced as colored imaginations that captivate our hearts.

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.

Believe that God is strong enough to save your children, no matter how you fail.

Idolatry, like all sin, is devastating to the soul. It cuts us off from the comforts of grace, the peace of conscience, and the joy that is to be our strength.

The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He's strong enough to make us want to do the right thing.

We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.

I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.

I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.

God never encourages self-reliance.

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

We need to remember how what Christ has already done transforms who we are right now -- not later, once we get it together but right now in all the messes we've made.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created.

The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

Great communicators leave their audiences with great clarity.

We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action.

Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.