The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey; the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.

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.

If there was no darkness, there would be no opportunity for light to overcome it.

Be strong enough to ignore the negative opinions of people, so that your positive spirit could illuminate your true unique colors.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.

We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give.

The Universe is responding to who you FEEL you are.

There is no special way a photograph should look.

I believe love - and its feminine, though not necessarily female, counterpart, romance, is a private thing. It's something I'm not willing to share with the public.

We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

The moment is all there is now. All there is is now. That's what God is, too. God is only now.