We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.

Physical wounds heal, but those on the soul are difficult to heal.

When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through

I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.

When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.

That has nothing to do with basketball. That's just because I'm sexy.

And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.