God's presence is all that matters.

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.

How terrible, " said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you."

If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.

I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now!

I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

If they're going to remember the problem, make sure they remember it fondly.

There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.