“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”

It’s not what I don’t know that bothers me – it’s what I do know and don’t do!

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands.

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support.

Never will He hold your hand more tightly than when He is leading you through the dark.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

Every character that I’ve chosen has made me evolve as an actor. And I am lucky that my directors have shown so much faith in my abilities.

When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith.

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

We should live out our particular brand of faith, sure – but we should never force our brand of faith upon anyone else. All violence starts with the desire to change others and then never, ever ends.

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.