I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.

We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.

I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture wars obsolete. After they wrestle with doubts and objections to Christianity many come out on the other side with an orthodox faith that doesn't fit the current categories of liberal Democrat or conservative Republican.

The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.

If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.