Following Christ isn't something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.

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

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

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.

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.

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.

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.

Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.

Whatever we may be or not be to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves.

Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.

The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys.

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

The minute he spoke Spanish, I said, "I'm home."

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

Ability is noting without opportunity.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.