The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

The impeccable roles of a good responsible mother should at all times be applauded.

The beauty of the past lies in-between the perpetual unhappiness of the future and of those who live it.

But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy.

We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one.

You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve the most. That race just isn't important to me.

It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all.

a mother is God's deputy on earth.

I want to try new creative things and find refreshing stories. That's how I've come to choose the roles that I've done.

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.