The biggest difference between between religious people and gospel-loving people is that religious people see certain people as the enemies, when Jesus-followers see sin as the enemy.

Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.

Our job as Christians is to stick so close to Jesus that when people are around us, they sense him.

When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him not for what he gives but for who he is—dangerous, unpredictable, radical, and amazing.

We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.

The more I read, the more I felt the Bible looked a lot more like the movie 300 than the movie Pleasantville.

Discipline is one of the basic and primary requirements for success in life.

I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I'd left.

At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.

The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is a system driven almost entirely by race and class.

We are trying to get a border wall to protect millions of low income Americans against folks who aren't supposed to be here. So, it's a national security.

With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.