The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.

Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.

Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond.

If the Almighty directs our steps, we've no need to look back over our shoulders.

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.

It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.

By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.

With God, it isn’t who you were that matters; it’s who you are becoming.

Fun is temporary at best; it's risky, even dangerous, at worst. Joy, on the other hand, was mystery I couldn't seem to decipher.

My heart's desire is to find more opportunities to give myself away and teach my children the joy of service at the same time.

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

Some things are not supposed to be forgotten

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.

Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

When you're directing, it is a little easier, because when you're the actor, you have a to be a little more of a child. You have to get into the child's aspect of your personality a little bit more.

Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.

Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion.

Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.