In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

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.