One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand' (Matt 3:2, 4:17, 10:7). This is a call for us to reconsider how we have been approaching our life, in light of the fact that we now, in the presence of Jesus, have the option of living within the surrounding movements of God's eternal purposes, of taking our life into his life.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.