If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

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

So when Jesus directs us to pray, “Thy kingdom come,” he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence. Rather, we pray for it to take over at all points in the personal, social, and political order where it is now excluded: “On earth as it is in heaven.” With this prayer we are invoking it, as in faith we are acting it, into the real world of our daily existence

The relation of redemption and sanctification would be the ongoing relationship between the driver and God who is directing her. Now, if God isn't directing him, he may go wild and do all sorts of things criminal and crazy.

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

What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish

If we are right on the inside, we will address these issues straight-forwardly and take a stand on them, and, if necessary, die for them. We will be that committed.