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

It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self.

Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.

God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being "right," we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.

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

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.