But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.

The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.

‎"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?

True faith manifests itself through our actions.

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.

We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.

In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party.

Silena, take the Aphrodite crew to the Queens-Midtown Tu

I have to go with Data's makeup, because that was basically every day, 10 months out of the year, for seven years. There were only a couple of days that I had to endure for Dr. Soong.

There's no smoke without mud being flung around.

They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing or whatever. They give up an awful lot to perform at the highest level.

With all their attack ads, the President is just throwing away money...and he's pretty experienced at that.

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.

Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

I'm glad to share my views.

My mother was the making of me.