The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.

Words are incomplete and yet we need them. They are the cups that give our memories shape, and keep them from trickling away.

You haven't lived a full life until you have been in a very tough situation when you thought you were going to die. War does that to you.

There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

Live your Art. Don't think about it.

I've been a very lucky actor.

I'm not going to pay good money to join a club that lets in people like me.

The Piano ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

If I were to look in you ferigerator....refridgefreetorator...fridge....what would I find?

You need to create a 30-minute buffer between the end of your work time and sleep time.