When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?

Forgiveness is the only battery that can power our relationship with God and other men like us.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?

Living safely is dangerous.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.

Filmmaking in general is just really where I'm putting all of my energy.

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.