Apart from worshiping God, everything becomes superficial. But when you understand the driving force behind everything, all of a sudden there's an eternal amount of joy at our disposal, because everything we do is enlightened and enlivened by the endless glory of the eternal God.

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer.

The glory of God is that you can't outs in His grace.

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.

I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.