The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness.

To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.

Without the cross the Discipline of Confession would be merely therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective [a better word would have been "metaphysical"] change in our relationship with God and a subjective change in us. It is a means of healing and transforming the inner spirit.

It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important