A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.

We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of the human personality.

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

Many people get what they need from church attendance because the Word is preached, and the rituals are carried on, and God works, but it's drift more than anything else. And that's why the churches keep reaching for some programmatic formula that will make people come and give money. It's just really very sad.

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

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