Fight each round take it on the chin. And never never never ever give in.
Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid. Courage means we refuse to be mastered by fear.
When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'
To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.
Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.
We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord. . . until we look upon the Lord. . . until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?
God will put someone in your path today who doesn't necessarily need you. . . but who desperately needs Christ in you.
For me, the key image is the boat coming through the fog at the beginning. It's something I imagined and liked and I guess there are other references in other films I make - the similar type of image. But I think it's interesting, it's breaking through the mystery, or maybe it stays in the fog. . . we don't really know. Where is he at the beginning of the film, who is he?
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in a time of remarkable progress and wonderful possibilities for the future.
Ultimately, my Ph. D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.