We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted – and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.

God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?

Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.

So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.

Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

Unless you learn to play a duet in the same key, to the same rhythm, a slow process of disengagement will wedge you apart, first secretly, psychologically, and then openly and miserably.

Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader of this age.

In your attempts to heal this beloved one, the Holy Spirit finds opportunity to keep the promise of Jesus - and indeed, to heal.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

You are either moving towards or away from success at any given time. What direction are you headed in?

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design?

I wanna try and stay a student for life.

People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do.

If I could identify one core problem about the world, it's that we've been taught to distrust ourselves.

I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.