“Story is the language of the heart.”

Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God. The heart is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

I’m married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.

A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.

So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.

The most meaningless term in the English language is “I take full responsibility.” When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can’t understand each other. It’s also usually my experience of being in America – when I speak no one can understand what I’m saying.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It’s a language aside from the language they have with strangers.