Anxiety splits our energy between today’s priorities and tomorrow’s problems. Part of our mind is on the now; the rest is on the not yet. The result is half-minded living.

You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear

Fear may fill our world, but it doesn't have to fill our hearts.

Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out.

For s ledes elskede Gud verden, at han gav sin enb rne s n, for at enhver som str kker ud hos ham, ikke skal fortabes, men have evigt liv (John G. Paton's overs ttelse)

Identity: smack-dab in the middle...Neither omnipotent nor impotent. Neither God's MVP nor God's mistake.

What you think of Jesus Christ Will thoroughly color how you think about everything else.

Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras: bold, brassy, and everywhere.

If pride is what goes before a fall, the shame is what keeps you from getting up after one.

A person is worth something simply because he is a person.

Your difficulty, your disease, your conflict are preparing you to be a voice of encouragement to your brothers.

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

Here's a salute to a long good life: goodness that outlives the grave. love that outlasts the final breath. May you live your life in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.

I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy...

I'm very domestic, and I think that keeps me sane. My personal relationships keep me grounded.

Social media has changed everything in our world. The collective humanity, as it was, has such a voice these days, and that's never really existed before.

I feel like it's impossible to please the hardcore comic book fans, because they'll never be happy no matter what you do.

I married my husband who is thirteen years older, so I will always be a trophy wife for him.

I like to be open with journalists and I like to be honest. I hate being disingenuous because that's really uncomfortable for me; I don't excel at doing that.

Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

I have absolutely no skill set that would suggest that I would be able to do directing. [...] If I were able to, I'd like to get into that.

Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.

Everyone with an iPhone is a journalist in their own way now, especially because we live in a tabloid culture.

Almost everything I say, no matter how innocent my intentions are, seems to get sort of manipulated and sensationalized and turned into some ridiculous news story.

If alcohol is legal, I don't see why people still have a ban on marijuana.

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

I don't really resent being on the red carpet as much as I do having to deal with the paparazzi.

It's an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself.

I don't want to have people get completely sick of me before I've ever even done something legitimate.

I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.

I think I'm a different kind of role model for young girls.

I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood.

I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

I'm not a 'sexy' 'beautiful' woman. It takes a lot of work to make me look like a girl.

I do have a 22-inch waist, I will say that.

What distracts me from my reality is bigfoot. They are my celebrities.

Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.

My weight fluctuates constantly—I don't really take good care of myself. I just sort of exist and survive.

And you know, the people who hate kids and don't want kids always end up having 50 of them.

I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down.

I'm so suspicious of boys-slash-men. I just don't like them or trust them.

If there's no sun, I go batshit crazy.

People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.

If you're billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not with intent behind it.

I've actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows.

I feel much safer with girls, so I felt more comfortable kissing her in the movie than kissing any of the other people that I had to kiss.

I played with Barbies but I used to decapitate them. I used to take their heads off then dye their hair and do weird things.

The things that happen in your life are either your choices or opportunities and lessons the universe has put before you. Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.

I would love to do a movie naked; it would be beautiful. No one dares make that kind of film today. They did it in the 1930s in an arty way, so why not now?