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

The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to possess without, like the "rich young ruler," being possessed (Mark 10:22); how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power.

When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly individualistic and unbearably bright.

The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.