It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.

Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.

Time is given us to use in view of eternity.

Grace is the very opposite of merit... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.

Wherever there's light, there's bugs.

No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.

Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.

Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.

The Christian life is never static. One must either grow in grace, or there will be backsliding and deterioration.

Your destiny is the only path to be travelled by you.

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.

I knew that Weird Girl was going to be kind of amazing. The secret truth of Weird Girl is that I put her in there originally because I needed some way to set the boys' names.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.

what's life without a spice of stupidity

It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.

For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.