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

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

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.

We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.

Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.

Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.

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

That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.

God’s address is at the end of your rope.

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!

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.

Suddenly we had become these people who didn’t drink anything but kale, who ended many of our conversations with tears, and for whom no future was guaranteed. It was kind of funny.

politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

A conversation isn’t a competition.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.