We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don't believe. They think that by professing it they're doing something good. Really, they're just deluding themselves.

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.

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

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence.

Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible.