When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.