Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority spending time with other believers is.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Embrace every good opportunity you encounter

It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative.

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but youve got a lot of downtime as well.

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

A choreographic idea flows only as fast as the initiator can communicate it to bodies and see them realize it.

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.

I leave from where the apostle arrived.

Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

The Spirit reveals, unfolds, takes of the things of Christ and shows them to us, and prepares us to be more than a match for Satanic forces.