The way we live out our days is the way we will live our lives.

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.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith.

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

I notice that if there are some times I've been stressed, because I'm human and stress about things, that affects your kids. So you have to make sure you're a happy mom so they can be happy.

I can't think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures

I've always been dead set against festivals, really suspicious and wary.

It's easier to stay in shape than to fluctuate.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.