Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.

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

That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and it has affected us in many ways. That's a part of the idea that professing is enough.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

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

In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.

When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.