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I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.

The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.

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!

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

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

We were built to count, as water is made to run downhill. We are placed in a specific context to count in ways no one else does. That is our destiny.

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.

It is always a personal negotiation, as

God's address is at the end of your rope.

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.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

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

In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

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

It is possible to have the administration of the sacraments and the preaching of the Word of God and to have it be simply a human exercise.

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act ... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

People who love one another can be silent together.12

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

Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.

Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.

At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.

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.

Last words of his mother to his father: Keep eternity before the children.

The Kingdom Among Us is simply God himself and the spiritual realm of beings over which his will perfectly presides - as it is in the heavens.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing
by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

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

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.

If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.

We are becoming who we will be - forever.

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.

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?

An obsession merely with doing all God commands may be the very thing that rules out being the kind of person that he calls us to be.

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

Circumstances and other people are not in control of an individual's character or of the life that lies endlessly before

Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke ...

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

The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.

The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

Anything done in anger can be done better without it!

The will is transformed by experience, not information.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

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.

God is not mean, but he is dangerous.

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.

Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.

The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.

What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

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

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

Mystery" means, in the language of the New Testament, something that had long remained hidden but then came to be known for the first time. The

Faith is not opposed to evidence that we might gain from perception as well as from reason.

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

Prayer is, above all, a means of forming character. It combines freedom and power with service and love. What

Our task in ourselves and in others is to transform right answers into automatic responses to real-life situations.

Sit in the companionship of God - the one who shows up and can be seen.

Worship is at once the overall character of the renovated thought life and the only safe place for a human being to stand.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence.

We live from our depths - most of which we do not understand. Do

The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'

Method is always tied to subject matter, and in dealing with life in general there is no such thing as a single scientific method.

Recall, now, that the kingdom of God is the range of his effective will: that is, it is the domain where what he prefers is actually what happens. And

Practice routinely purposeful kindnesses and intelligent acts of beauty.

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

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.

Spiritual formation in Christ moves toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.

They then easily moved on to the faith-destroying, even blasphemous idea that everything that happens in this world is caused by God.

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

Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.

Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.

Greatest need of collective humanity - is renovation of our heart.

Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

God does not 'love' us without liking us ...

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

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

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of

What God gets out of our lives - and, indeed, what we get out of our lives - is simply the person we become. It

Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.

Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

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.

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace ... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

Keep eternity before the children.