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

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

The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best.

What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in acting in union with God himself, who created and ultimately controls all other forces.

God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being "right," we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.

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.

The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.