Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.

The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

A youth is to be regarded with respect.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they've never failed to imitate them.

Christians who live to be pleasing to God are so spiritually attractive that people want to know what makes them stand apart.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth. The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker. They are more easily excited; they are more violent and apparent, but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in mature life.

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else.

So you never know who you are going to touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20) - Denzel Washington, "So that We Might Follow