“My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding.”

People follow courage, not titles.

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn’t said.

We all remember things, it’s what we remember that determines how we live.

Sacrifice is a step beyond convenience.

If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they’re not.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don’t remain a novice.

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn’t want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual.

I will not lower the standard of the Bible to my level of experience.

Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects.

Whatever you gain through self promotion you’ll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.

Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices…. Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

I think cinema is better today that you can be more daring with what you do. If you do it well. With that comes a responsibility not to bore people with vulgarity and all that stuff. To know how to do it right, know how to lay it out there.

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.

I am really enthusiastic about my new council position because part of my satisfaction in life is feeling like I have done something. With this responsibility I hope I can accomplish things for the City of Williamstown and the people.

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty.

As I’ve matured, the roles are a bit more layered and representative of where I am today as an older person with more responsibilities, perspective and hopefully not too many regrets.