Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they 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.

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway.

To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Respect is not a one way street

Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.

Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.