Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.

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.

They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death, ” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.

Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Choices not chance determine your destiny.

I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.

Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier.

It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.

Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.

America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.