The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

There is no cure for the social battles that we fight in our culture - and there's so much grief around race, gender, and so forth - until you eliminate "withdrawal" and "attack" and replace them with "acceptance" and "help." Once you do that and not just talk about it, these other issues will fall into place quickly. They will not fall into place at all unless it is done this way.

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

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

If we are right on the inside, we will address these issues straight-forwardly and take a stand on them, and, if necessary, die for them. We will be that committed.

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

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.