No one can love himself properly unless he knows why he is living. Love is useless when alone.

So when God pulls down the curtain on the drama of the world's redemption, He will not ask what part we played, but only how well we played the role assigned to us.

God does not make anything with the purpose of destroying it. There is no waste in life.

As a mother cannot forget the child of her womb, so a speaker cannot forget the child of his brain.

I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.