When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams. . . . pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
None who are shod with fleshly shoes can stand on the holy ground of God's service. Many failures and much waste and confusion which have resulted are due to men's coming to work, instead of being sent out to work.
There is no substitute for knowledge.
Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.
To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.