So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.

Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.

By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.

Our condition is most noble being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.

…her mom's faith wasn't just about God healing her, it was about God's sovereignty in her life. She had faith that God is, and will always be, who He says He is in His Word.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I think all the roles I've played really center around either the great conflict or how the great conflict affects the people that I love. I've been cast often as a hard-nosed, hyper-confident guy.

The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.

For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved.

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.