Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of the church for special occasions, but does not give his or her life and innermost thoughts, feelings, and intentions over to the kingdom of the heavens. Such Christians are not inwardly transformed and not committed to it.

Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.

A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it.

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.