In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

We don't have to be brilliant.

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.