“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.”

The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.

God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

He is the Truth, and He wants us to deal in truth with ourselves and our loved ones. We want the truth about you and your family to flood into and overrun the secrets that keep you in bondage to dysfunctional behavior and relationships.

The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

Darling, you don’t fear love, you fear of loving wrong.

On the last day of every character I’ve ever played

Expanding can only be done when the company is ready.

That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.

He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.