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

Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.

God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to bear upon our needs, and then by diffusing it throughout our deeds - deeds done with expectation that he and his Father will act with and in our actions.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.

My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for Himself. If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that He knew how to live. We can, through faith and grace, become like Christ by practicing the types of activities He engaged in, by arranging our whole lives around the activities He Himself practiced in order to remain constantly at home in the fellowship of the Father.

Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.