The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

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

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.

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

Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.