The greatest blessing in the whole world is being a blessing.

Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.

To lose something in the will of God is to find something better.

If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday.

If God called us to a task, He will then qualify us for the job.

Success is on the same road as failure; success is just a little further down the road.

A tribulation gives you the opportunity to test a truth you have always believed.

We need God as much in the calm as in the storm.

Everything you declare with your lips will be tested in your life.

I'd rather die in the will of God than to live outside of it.

Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.

It is better to travel, than to arrive

I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

With a family of six, there is always something to make, create and do together.

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes.

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

Well, you know, I am in the business and I like to promote myself.

This is why I can't be with Levi. Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight-and Levi can't even read.

I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.