The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.

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

Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.

It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self.

I submit my tongue as an instrument of righteousness when I make it bless them that curse me and pray for them who persecute me, even though it "automatically" tends to strike and wound those who have wounded me. I submit my legs to God as instruments of righteousness when I engage them in physical labor as service, perhaps carrying a burden the "second mile" for someone whom I would rather let my legs kick. I submit my body to righteousness when I do my good deeds without letting them be known, though my whole frame cries out to strut and crow.

We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.

When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence.