Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would train his whole personality to depend upon the risen Christ as Christ trained Himself to depend upon the Father.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from the inside. And that's where the church should be working.

There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.

Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.

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