It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.

God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything.

We don't help people by showing them our trophies. We help them by showing them our scars.

I do one sit up a day. I get up in the morning, that's the first half. I lay down at night, that's the second half.

When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!

Life is a series of recoveries.

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

The things you're crying about today, you might be laughing about in ten years ... and then again ... maybe not.

How about you hate your sin, and I'll hate my sin and we'll just love each other!

I hate puns. And, I'm tired of pardoning them.

Our preachers weren't always right, but they were never in doubt.

When you start out writing, your inner creative is just a little seedling with tiny leaves above the earth, peeping out into the air for the first time.

I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind.

We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.

I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.

People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.