Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.

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

What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.

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

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.