The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.

When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being.