Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.

Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!

The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship.

God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.

The inspiration and authority of the Bible is the bedrock upon which our faith is built. Without it, we are doomed to uncertainty, doubt, and a hopeless groping in the darkness of human speculation.

If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.

Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

Worship is first and foremost a feasting on all that God is for us in Jesus... [One] in which God is the host, the cook, the waiter, and the meal itself.

if you did not make a mistake, then you have not try anything new, then you did not live at all.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.

Christ's mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.

If they had wanted to punish me, they should have kept me in a communal apartment. Then I would have become a wreck.

That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of its future yet to be achieved.

I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

Design job fell on me. I didn't want to do it. It was an accident. For the first 10 years I said, "Tomorrow I'm stopping."

Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.

Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.