The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.

The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.

...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Finding the tool is often half the battle.

I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.

The way I see it, I belong to the film as any other department.

All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.