Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.

Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.

I'd rather make my crib a house of God and pray directly to God verses, than listening to this hypocritical leaders/priest experiencing too much failure!!!

What are you going to fill it with?" she asks. "Holy water or something?" "Probably Dasani, " Thomas replies.

A gust of wind rattles the window, and I look out. Leaves are whooshing all over the place, flying past horizontally as if they have engines of their own.

He only may chastise who loves.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Was that life? Well then, once more!

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.