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

Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.

God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.

Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.

Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.

When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.

Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.

Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

Keep eternity before the children.

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was.

Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.

I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery.

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.