A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'

You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.

When you look in the eyes of grace, when you meet grace, when you embrace grace, when you see the nail prints in grace’s hands and the fire in his eyes, when you feel his relentless love for you - it will not motivate you to sin. It will motivate you to righteousness.

The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.

I think people would be surprised to discover that their challenges and struggles are not too dissimilar to us, average ordinary people. We're all looking for essentially the same thing and I think that's faith and hope and love and meaning and of course satisfaction, peace, joy.

Indifference was our greatest enemy.