People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to scue me from myself.

An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

I never talk about my personal life. After these rumours, I definitely do not want to comment on anything.

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.

Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.