I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he submitted to that. And in that submission, he became a great leader. You could say that the only person who is safe to lead is the person who is free to submit.

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

If worship does not change us it has not been worship.

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.

Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it.