My attraction to heavy church-goers has more to do with me wanting to see who'd win the fight

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

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.

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

The happiest people on Earth are the ones who know love.

Advertising is what you do when you can't go to see somebody. That's all it is.

I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

Forgiveness is essential as the ultimate detox

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

I think my power comes from my hands.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.