The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

But the Holy Spirit is not in a hurry. Character is the produce of a lifetime.

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.

As we face the cross, then, we can say to ourselves both, “I did it, my sins sent him there, ” and “He did it, his love took him there.

So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us a radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching.

You will find your true spirit when you lose your egocentric, self-centered desires and fill your mind with pure love and non-judgmental thoughts.

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

But you're an artist. you should know there's more to a story than the part happening right now.

When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads.

Girls. You never know what they're going to think.

I love the phrase, 'Somebody's going to have a good day today, so it might as well be me.' I feel like you bring everything to the character, I hope.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.

Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children - they grab on to that and don't want to give it up.