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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish
One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.
You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.
Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.
The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.
When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence.
When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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.
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.
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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.
Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.
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.