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.

He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a "God government" in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

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.