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.

Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.

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.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

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