If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.

Kill what you can't savewhat you can't eat throw outwhat you can't throw out buryWhat you can't bury give awaywhat you can't give away you must carry with you, it is always heavier than you thought.

Every season has a reason. Summer cannot do the works of winter, nor winter the works of summer. Each season is unique yet so important, so cherish the seasons in your life.

I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of so much doing.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

My take on celebrity is simply that some of us have to make a bigger fool of ourselves than others.

It's hard to keep a play alive moment-to-moment, you know? But there's another part of it that I really love, which is that you never know.

I do think that evangelicals in general need to think seriously about how you pass on your faith across generations and over the long haul.