My mother always taught me to wear clothes for myself and not to follow trends as trends will end!
When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.
We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
We're not here to prove we're right; we're here to help people.
I had severe asthma and kidney problems and would get 105-degree fevers. I actually almost had to go on dialysis for my kidneys. I was also in the hospital for pneumonia.
On my second space walk, I was riding the Canadarm, heading down toward the payload bay of the space shuttle, and I could see the space shuttle highlighted against the Earth in the background, and there was this black, infinite, hostile void of space. I remember looking down at the Earth and thinking, "Beneath me is a 4½-billion-year-old planet, upon which the entire history of the human species has taken place. " That was an incredibly humbling moment, and I had a bit of an epiphany.
Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.
All the rare and royal names Wormy sheepskin yet retains