Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.

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.

Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.

I have repeatedly called for respecting institutions and the democratic process. Once the process is completed, we should always respect the outcome.

Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring.

I've always been a fine artist.

I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

One of the reasons we're here, that we exist at all, is that Earth, cosmically speaking, is in a relatively peaceful place: orbiting our Sun in a near perfect circle.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.