Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

When there’s something in the Word of God that I don’t like, the problem is not with the Word of God, it’s with me.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

Life is a wondrous journey that can be of your own making or a combination of fate and luck.

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.

Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

I'm not really a cutter-off sort of person. I'll chat to anybody.

To think is not enough, you must think of something.

People ask me how can I be stylish, how can I be elegant and what can I wear? My only answer is study! You have to learn.

There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence.

All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.