The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

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.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

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.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.