discipleship

Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.

No one ever made more trouble than gentle Jesus meek and mild.

if we are wayfarers who want to return home, then we must see the world as a means of transportation (terestibus vel marinis vehiculis) and always remember to distinguish the means and ends.

In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.

You can't grasp the wonderful and keep your feet on the ground.

Maybe you have been looking for peace for no one but yourself.

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way

That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order." "What a task! He ought to have three heads.

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

Boethius moved from considering history from the actor's point of view to a "timeless" eternal view. From the divine perspective, nothing is ever utterly lost, because all of life is possessed by God in the eternal now. Though time was gnawing away at Boethius and stealing all he valued, God was beyond time and loss. Gaining this philosophical vantage allowed the last Roman to become one of the first men of the Middle Ages.

Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you've had enough of them to provide reference.

Make use of every friend_ and every foe.

each year, she finds her friendships less volatile and easier, because she increasingly succeeds at looking past their flaws and disappointments and homing in on their pleasures and on what set them in motion to begin with. And she wonders why she didn__ do that sooner, why she gave in to so much fury and sorrow when she could have just let those emotions go.

Conversions were easy, but making full-time disciples was hard.

We can__ really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.

The Jesus People experience proved to be a staging area for tens of thousands of young Americans who were making up their mind about marriage, schooling, and careers