The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.

The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.

What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven, there is no basis for discipleship.

Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You need to seek out others in your community who are pursuing the renovation of the heart.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.