“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.

There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.

We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.

The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day.

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.