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.

Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.

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.

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

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.