All flesh shall perish together and man shall turn again unto dust.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

The real satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such

The kingdom of God is within you.

With God, all things are possible.

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

One day you gonna find out that you can't shout... nobody does listens to you.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Trust is a product of test over time.

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes.

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

If you can imagine missing feeling sad, it's the only thing worse than pain.

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.