It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

The will is transformed by experience, not information.

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

Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

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.