I don't want to keep crawling when i have the ability to fly.

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.

He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.

We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.

My family had liberal positions.

If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.