“Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your 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.

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.

We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.

We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.

“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.

You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

In turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.