“What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.”

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.

As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.

If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.

The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.

Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.

If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.

We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.

It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.

It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.

Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

The cynicism doesn’t come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.

Every kid has something they’re good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn’t considered.

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.