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

Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest in or even knowledge of. Prayer simply dies from efforts to pray about ‘good things’ that honestly do not matter to us. The way to get to meaningful prayer for those good things is to start by praying for what we are truly interested in. The circle of our interests will inevitably grow in the largeness of God’s love.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.

The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!