It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self.

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.

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.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

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.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war

If you belong to Jesus Christ, you are called to live a life of purity and holiness. God wants your mind to be shaped by Him so that your thoughts and goals reflect Christ.

You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.

The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.

We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

Until Jesus comes, his resurrection glory in the church is a matter of strength made perfect in suffering.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

Winter in #‎ Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.