If you want to put on a suit and come to church, fine. But it's a problem when you make people feel like, if you don't do this, you're not going to be accepted and God doesn't look at that.

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

I’m not a Christian because I’m strong and have it all together. I’m a Christian because I’m weak and admit I need a Savior.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted, ' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages.

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

You can certainly shorten things and tighten things, we tightened up Jon's walk to Mance Rayder's tent. That was something that got tightened up a little bit because I had shot the hell out of that.

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

Nature is our greatest teacher.

The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.