The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature

If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.

Your mind was made to know and love God.

All heroes are shadows of Christ

God without Christ is no God.

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.

All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.

Jesus - “the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9).

I am as knowledgeable as Socrates I know nothing.

It is my last night here, and I suddenly feel quite tearful, sitting up in my usual window.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

When you're pregnant, things-at least for me-get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth.

I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as though I'm still learning who I am as an artist.