The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.

A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.