Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

My hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. In his case, quite frankly, presumed familiarity has led to unfamiliarity, unfamiliarity has led to contempt, and contempt has led to profound ignorance.

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

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.

If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.

What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to feel. Moreover, what we think is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to feel. In short, the condition of our mind is very much a matter of the direction in which our will is set.