Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence.

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

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