Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.

You are the architect of your own loneliness.

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

Ask yourself whether the problem will matter in a year or two. If not, it may be a trivial issue unworthy of your concern.

Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed.

The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's going to take a lot of brains in Russia to create a drain.

Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can’t we be friendly?

I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.