Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

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

If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

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