We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.

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.

Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students.

I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.

For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.

I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'

Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual.

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.