The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.

The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.

The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to possess without, like the "rich young ruler," being possessed (Mark 10:22); how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power.