Anytime I'm not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I'm wasting my time. [Mark's brother-in-law, Matt ________, speaking]

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

...love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That is the kind of love Jesus shows to us.

...if you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.

...if you're walking with Jesus and you invite someone to walk with you, there is a good chance they'll get to know Jesus somewhere along the way.

Following Jesus is a verb.

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.

Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it.

...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

You can never have too much money.

I dwell on great thoughts.

We employ free will to design of our own being and therefore we must accept responsibility for our actions.

For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.

The only thing I can think to do is if the Democratic Party can do what the Republicans have done, which is go in there and take control of these legislatures and governors' areas.

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

I don't give players a chance to hit me.

The Guardian,[is] one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world.

I see Hillary [Clinton] as a calculating politician without any vision. It depends what the next thing is that they calculate she needs to say.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.