You can pray just like anyone else. The gifts of the Spirit belong to the Holy Spirit. You have this inside you by faith and can be a conduit.

I'm open to the gifts of the Spirit. The real healings are so beautiful I hate to see it blasphemed by fakes who merchandise the gifts.

Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture, sessions with a therapist, twelve step recovery.

Watch out for those who put themselves above you. The real ones point to Christ in you.

I'm going to publicly challenge the biggest names in religion to repent and give back the money they've ripped off from the poor.

My films are about faith, and they're made on faith. There has to be faith because making a movie, so many things can go wrong.

I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.

The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

Invest time that will compound forever.

Eastern churches simply often try to please Muslims. Why doesn't the New York Times report this?

What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.