The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.

God does not 'love' us without liking us.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.

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

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

You have been given a ministry and your ministry is not your job and your job and your ministry are two things and beyond that is your work in life which isn't the same as your ministry and then beyond that is your life. And this is what God is more interested in than your work or your ministry-what He gets out of your life is the person you become. And He has plans for you, and these are long-range plans.