The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved by Jesus Himself.

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

You're all incredibly thoughtful souls who keep my head attached to my body.

Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.

Madame, I believe the greatest sin against God is to be false. If one is not true to one's self, then it is impossible to be true to God. I bear you no ill will for following your heart.

...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.

One thing I learned about people is that they love to give their opinions about things.

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.