Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver and the machine - is our spirit or heart.

The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

If we are right on the inside, we will address these issues straight-forwardly and take a stand on them, and, if necessary, die for them. We will be that committed.