Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader of this age.

God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?

Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.

So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.

Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

Unless you learn to play a duet in the same key, to the same rhythm, a slow process of disengagement will wedge you apart, first secretly, psychologically, and then openly and miserably.

We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted – and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.

In your attempts to heal this beloved one, the Holy Spirit finds opportunity to keep the promise of Jesus - and indeed, to heal.

This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

I'm going to gather all the French people who want change.

Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.

It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.

Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.