“When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.”

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.

God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”

The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

The church is in the hope business.

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.

Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.

I think that I am among the few lucky ones who are exploiting complexity.

Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

You will stir up the hornets.

. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away.