We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.

Writing is prayer.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor.

In the corrupted currents of this worldOffence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itselfBuys out the law. . . (Claudius, from Hamlet, Act 3, scene 3)

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

I trust pictures, but no pictures made in my world - because I know what goes on.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.