The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.

An 'almost gospel' doesn't raise a corpse.

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.

The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

Charleston was where America split apart in 1861. Maybe it's where America comes together in 2015.

Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context.

The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.

We find it difficult to distinguish between spiritual combatants… and their hostages.

The culture around us knows what it means when they see a church in perpetual bluster and outrage. They know that we are scared.

I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and my future.

There have been years where I've had to take a real job and I wrote during slow times and lunches. I think never forgetting how lucky I am to be able to do something I love has really fueled me.

There's a lot of young guys coming along, but I'd like to say to the various financiers, don't forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you.

No one is in a more strategic position than you are to influence the people you are with.

I remember a time when it was ok to make fun of politicians and powerful people. Now, it's not ok anymore. We've forgotten how to laugh.

It's alright all of us all living saying 'oh well there's enough of us so we won't have anymore, don't let anybody else live.' I don't believe in that.

Significance is inherent in the human body.

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.