The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best.

Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn't! It's in the mind - how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It's in our feelings. It's in our body.

The greatest need you and I have-the greatest need of collective humanity-is renovation of our heart. That spiritual place with in us from which outlook, choices, and actions come has been formed by a world away from God. Now it must be transformed. Indeed, the only hope of humanity lies in the fact that, as our spiritual dimension has been formed, so it also can be transformed.