All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with the two issues of identity and empowerment. Who am I? How can I have the power to live? Those are the questions everyone has to deal with. If we don't come to terms with these, we lapse into some form of human decadence and failure.

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!

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.

Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.

As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.