The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.

Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.

Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering.

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

Obedience isn’t a lack of fear. It’s just doing it scared.

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

When my worldwas nothing but darknessI set my soul on fire.

When you can give up approval and appreciation seeking behaviors, then you will become true to yourself and the universe.

Truth forever on the scaffold wrong forever on the throne.

It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

I can't figure women out. They put on makeup for three hours. They wear things that make them smaller. Things that make them bigger. Then they meet a man and they want truth.

It's better to have a great team than a team of greats.