He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a "God government" in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.

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 most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that his other attributes do not preclude thought, but only ensure that he is certainly the greatest thinker of the human race: "the most intelligent person who ever lived on earth"

The will is transformed by experience, not information.