As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.

There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.

We are invited to make a pilgrimage -- into the heart and life of God.

Reality is what you can count on.

If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.

The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes- a time for men and women to be heroic in their faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

When Satan undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being.

Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and we develop the confused idea that leads people to aim at rest through excitement.

There is knowledge of God and the spiritual nature of man, as well as other types of reality..., that are not reducible to the world dealt with by the so-called natural sciences. The idea that knowledge -- and, of course, reality -- is limited to that world is the single most destructive idea on the stage of life today.

Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth and vitality stem from what we actually do with our lives, from the habits we form, and from the character that results.

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn't work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don't work! We must have a coordination system.

The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.