The hearts of the great can be changed.
The more intelligent the storytelling becomes and the deeper the character development, people will realize in film and television, like they do in real life, that human beings possess both good and bad.
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.
To worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself.
Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
The change is radical it gives us new natures, it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it sets us in a new road; it makes our habits different, it makes our thoughts different, it makes us different in private, and different in public.
We call men to repent and believe. And if they repent and believe, truly in that moment they are saved in that moment. But the evidence is more than just the sincerity of a prayer. It is a continuation of the working of God in their life through sanctification.
He's changed from the hatchet man to the chain saw man.
Referring to Senator Robert Dole:
No one had to worry about Peter after his conversion. Your investigators can be that converted.
The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.
In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It's a different day.