Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved by Jesus Himself.

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.

This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.