When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them.

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.

I puked rainbows all over my childhood, and it felt so good.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts

The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Everyday is like Sunday Everyday is silent and grey

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.