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

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.

Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.

Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.

When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.

It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Every dollar that I spend, every dollar that I make.

All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have,

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

And as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.