“I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.”

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

For a documentary it’s so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film

You had that in the Carpenter version, and you have that in this prequel.

The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.

I come from a theater background

I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like “Wait, what’s happening?” so I Googled it.

We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

Might makes right,’ and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.

There’s always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel.