“We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.”

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

We are becoming who we will be-forever.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.

The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.

In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.

Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

We don’t have to be brilliant.

Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.

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

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.

Never call a man a fool; borrow from him

This music is my heart and soul. This is who I am.” (Adam R. Young, 2006)

I guess the answer to the question would be I’m inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.

Diligence is not easy, but we can’t reach our goals without it.

We always may be what we might have been.

But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.