Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.

Only those who are truly aware of their sin can truly cherish grace.

Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.

We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.

Reminding ourselves of the gospel is the most important daily habit we can establish.

It’s not 'those who help themselves' whom God helps; it’s those who humble themselves.

But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.

We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.

The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace.

Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words.

There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

All the horror is in just this -- that there is no horror. . . .

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.