Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

All of it—for this. Leading us to a door we can't open, a password we don't have.

We always talk about human salvation. But we must first decide whether we deserve salvation?

The doctrines of grace stand or fall together, and together they point to one central truth: salvation is all of grace because it is all of God; and because it is all of God, it is all for His glory.

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.