God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him.

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.

Love grants us the power to forgive, to love when we’re hurt, but it also gives us the courage to let go, and the understanding that to love, we love freely—at our own choice.

This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.

Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.

I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.

A play is a painting that moves. Instead of it holding still, and you are looking at it, you hold still and it scrolls by.

What makes you grind? You have to always be chasing something.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.