Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.

Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

God's big enough that small doesn't matter.

We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.

I listened to you tell me, tell everyone, and all the world, “Praise the Lord.” You were broken, but not by bullets and bombs. You were broken by grace.

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.Almost.It is death by living.

The best compliment we can pay our past is to prophetically and bravely face today and tomorrow.

By confessing Jesus Christ as Lord, we give to Him all the rights to our lives.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

Your heart is a drum keeping time with everyone.

You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.

Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read, and just get away and surf.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are.