Staff Photo by Brett Clark -- Russell O'Quinn was the main speaker at the 31st annual Chattanooga Area Leadership Prayer Breakfast was held at the Chattanooga Convention Center today.

Russell O’Quinn said he has achieved every dream of high flight he ever had as a boy, but he warned those attending the 31st annual Chattanooga Leadership Prayer Breakfast this morning that dreams aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.

“Unless God is the author of your dreams,” he said before a crowd of 1,400 at the Chattanooga Convention Center, “you have a tragic disappointment waiting for you.”

Mr. O’Quinn, a 79-year-old Southern Californian, has spent more than five decades as a test pilot and aircraft designer but said he wants to devote the rest of his life to giving people a “briefing” more valuable than any he ever gave a training pilot.

“I’m not a preacher, I’m not a theologian,” he said, “but I have done a lot of research.”

Jesus Christ is the “unspeakable gift of God” who “came to redeem you and me,” Mr. O’Quinn said.

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