Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.

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

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.