One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become...appropri ately small.

The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

If we do not become changed from the inside-out - if we don't morph - we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy our need to feel that we're different from those outside the faith. If we cannot be transformed, we will settle for being informed or conformed.

Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.