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.

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.

Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You need to seek out others in your community who are pursuing the renovation of the heart.

God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to bear upon our needs, and then by diffusing it throughout our deeds - deeds done with expectation that he and his Father will act with and in our actions.

God's address is at the end of your rope.

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.