If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
Normally, if someone’s legacy will outlast their life, it’s apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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.
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.