There is no one that God does not love with all that he is. His love reaches beyond every sin and failure, hoping that at some moment they will come to know just how loved they are.

Our attempts to trust others will often be frustrated, but that's because God never wanted us to trust others. He wanted us to love others but to trust him alone.

The fruit of the Spirit is not what we can make ourselves do for a moment, But what God makes us to be for a lifetime.

The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.

I am convinced that real community flows out of right relationship with God and not that right relationship with God flows out of right community.

The fact that you don't feel Him [God] holding you doesn't change the fact that He still is.

Life is like a Chinese burn.

I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again

Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.

I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.