What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.

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.

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

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.

It was hope that brought me love.

Thank you. For being willing to talk. For not turning me in. For... being you.''I'm pretty good at being me, ' I said. 'I've had all these years to practice--I hardly ever get it wrong these days.

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.

the progress of real purpose is crippled where lack of money is equated to lack of zeal

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.

[The Outsiders] was all new to me. It's been fun to be a part of that ride, where it's become on the level of Catcher In The Rye in terms of people's required reading in schools.

Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked.

A man should be like a child with his wives, but if they need him, he should act like a man