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

In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.

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 true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.