We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

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's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.

The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.

‎"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?

True faith manifests itself through our actions.

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.

We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.

Life, life.

Peter remained on friendly terms with Christ notwithstanding Christ's having healed his mother-in-law.

I like imagining that he punished his body for me, torturing it into such spectacular shape, hoping that one day I'd be able to appreciate his efforts.

What I didn't need was some hot-and-cold long-distance flake wasting my time. It hurt my feelings and made me feel like something was wrong with me.

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.

I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.