The meaning, purpose, and significance of our lives are found only by aligning our lives with God's purposes, in lives committed to following Jesus Christ.

The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.

If we truly love God, we will express it by loving our neighbors, and when we truly love our neighbors, it expresses our love for God.

It’s not what you believe that counts; it’s what you believe enough to do.

Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?

We must move beyond an anemic view of our faith as something only personal and private, with no public dimension, and instead see it as the source of power that can change the world.

What if we actually demonstrated God's love for the world instead of just talking about it?

What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?

Don't fail to do something just because you can't do everything

God never asks us to give what we do not have . . . But he cannot use what we will not give.

Love always requires tangible expression. It needs hands and feet.

A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers, vendors, delivery people, and of course, customers.

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

More diets start in dress shops than in doctors' offices.

Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them.

I love foods that start in my cheeks and then vibrate up.

To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.

I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.

What are you doing here, Simi? (Astrid) Feeling peckish. Is there any food? Something not too heavy. Maybe a cow or two? (Simi)