Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.

God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to bear upon our needs, and then by diffusing it throughout our deeds - deeds done with expectation that he and his Father will act with and in our actions.

Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.

We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of the human personality.

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.

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.

In thus sending out his trainees, [Jesus] set afoot a perpetual world revolution: one that is still in process and will continue until God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven.... He has chosen to accomplish this with and, in part, through his students.