"Our most serious failure today is the inability to provide effective practical guidance as to how to live the life of Jesus. And I believe that is due to this very real loss of biblical realism for our lives"

"The “interior castle” of the human soul, as Teresa of Avila called it, has many rooms, and they are slowly occupied by God, allowing us time and room to grow."

"To manipulate, drive or manage people is not the same thing as to lead them."

"May I just give you this word? Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action."

"It was an important day in my life when at last I understood that if he needed forty days in the wilderness at one point, I very likely could use three or four."

"Legalists and theological experts with “lips close to God and hearts far away from him” (Isa. 29:13). The world hardly needs more of these."

"The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral."

"We truly live at the mercy of our ideas; this is never more true than with our ideas about God."

"Why is it that we look upon our salvation as a moment that began our religious life instead of the daily life we receive from God?"

"And if you are already flying upside down and don’t know it, your cleverness will do you little good."

"Hell is not an 'oops!' or a slip. One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God."

"Single-minded and joyous devotion to God and his will, to what God wants for us-and to service to him and to others because of him-is what the will transformed into Christliheness looks like."

"The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him."

"People who love one another can be silent together.”

"Love is not God, but God is love. It is who he is, his very identity."

"Play is the creation of value that is not necessary."

"Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible."

"Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort."

"Love, as Paul and the New Testament presents it, is not action—not even action with a special intention—but a source of action."

"Our destiny is to join a tremendously creative team effort, under unimaginably splendid leadership, on an inconceivably vast plane of activity, with ever more comprehensive cycles of productivity and enjoyment."

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

"God’s care for humanity was so great that he sent his unique Son among us, so that those who count on him might not lead a futile and failing existence, but have the undying life of God Himself. JOHN 3:16"

"Our most serious failure today is the inability to provide effective practical guidance as to how to live the lifwe of Jesus. And I believe that is due to this very real loss of biblical realism for our lives."

"Practice routinely purposeful kindnesses and intelligent acts of beauty."

"The single most obvious trait of those who profess Christ but do not grow into Christ-likeness is their refusal to take the reasonable and time-tested measures for spiritual growth."

"THOSE WHO REALLY do know Christ in the modern world do so by seeking and entering the kingdom of God."

"We can become like Christ by doing one thing—by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself."

"Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer."

"Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand."

"Great minds are always feared by lesser minds."

"Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire."

"Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past."

"To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books."

"God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'."

"Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy."

"Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true."

"Everyone loves a conspiracy."

"The decisions of our past are the architects of our present."

"Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove."

"Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose."

"The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine."

"The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial."

"God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change."

"Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand."

"Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to."

"By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account."

"Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel."

"Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light."

"What really matters is what you believe."

"The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought."