My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.

Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.

You want people who are both great fans and supporters and believers of your work and people who are also ruthlessly honest. People who will tell you the truth about it. Over the years I've picked up some friends and I know who to show what to and they'll give me the proper read.

A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make your soul soar.

What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.

The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.