The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.

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.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.

The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.