In healthy churches, the pastor's life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

What's a man worth without love? $.89 worth of chemicals. Hawkeye Pierce

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.

He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.

We need to be making disciples telling people about Jesus & move them beyond conversation into a heart relationship with Him in the fullness

A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy.

God doesn't want merely action but hearts driving action.

We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do.

The Word of God is our measuring stick against all deception.

Another component to living in the weeds and trees is earthly success, which will quickly place a crown on our heads without discipleship. The answer is Jesus Christ and it will always be him.

The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have...

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give out, rather than...

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. That's a curious view, not uninteresting.

Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.

Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.

Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean...