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.

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

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

In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset of creation.

We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.

Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.