I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.
Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.
By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life, and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.
Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not go willingly to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone once said, 'Salvation is free, but not cheap. ' It cost Jesus His life.
The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world.
But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
My prediction is that in the same way that Google is an intent revealing service that can be monetized that way, I would think that if I were at Twitter, I would focus on the search aspect of Twitter, because people are revealing intents when they do a search.
There are no plans in President-elect [Donald] Trump's policies moving forward to touch Medicare and Social Security.
In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison.