“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.”

Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

We don’t have to be brilliant.

Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

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.

As an actor, often you’re stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them – for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.

.superior to any sold for humans..

The whole world was saying that the countries of the regions should step up and resolve their problems, so we stepped up.

From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

People with yuan fen are destined to like one another

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.