Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

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

In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset of creation.

Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.

The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

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.