Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find...
Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers...
I am not the man I ought to be,I am not the man I wish to beand I am not the man I hope to be,but by the grace of God, I am not the man I used to be.---------------------Gender-inclusive version: I am not the person I ought to be,I am not the person I wish to beand I...
The world is complex and facing staggering problems. It needs Christians who are up to the task of making a constructive contribution, intellectually ready for the challenges that humanity faces, deeply motivated to love God and neighbor with all our minds. from After...
If you find God with great ease, perhaps it is not God you have found.
We cannot pray in love and live in hate and still think we are worshipping God.
We must be the ones that invest in abandoned places. In abandoned people. Because when the world says that there is no future there, we are the ones who know better. We believe in a God that restores.
The turning point in our lives is when we stop seeking the God we want and start seeking the God who is.
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
Restoration is the inworking of God's presence that transforms us with the heart of God, the mind of Christ, and the fruit of the Holy Spirit.