As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.

The Christian faith is faith in Christ. Its value or worth is not in the one believing but in the One believed - not in the one trusting, but in the One trusted.

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.

The best piece of life's magnificence is your slice of internal peace.

Do not confuse humility with humiliation.

If you just can’t get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you’d be envious of you.

Which is worse? Loving someone and not being able to be with them or not loving someone and having to be with them.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

Im not a big fan of the gym, I do lots of outdoor aerobics - yoga, swimming, running - but I kinda hate talking about it. We have a term in Australia, it makes you sound like a wanker.

At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?