“The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.”

At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.

God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.

In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.

Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.

The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.

The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any more than the Aetherial Lights [stars] are to be shifted.

An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.