Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.

Honest to God, she was the noisiest woman he'd ever been shot at with.

I don't really like roller coasters!

I never want to play down to the reader. I think readers are willing to go along if they're intrigued.

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

The Academy is paranoid about its image.

The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.