I was in a fascinating meeting where one man had been in China recently. A Chinese professor has found evidence that Christians reached Western China before 90 AD. Before 90 AD! The idea isn't all that astonishing when we think about it. That's what the disciples thought they were supposed to do! And, I'm sure, the disciples just said, "That's it. Let's go!" And they all wound up dead. But everyone else did too!

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

Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible.

The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.