discipleship

The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change.

Just open your eyes! I thought. These desperate poor are your gurus.

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

Some teachers only teach us and go but some teachers teach us and they leave indelible footprints which continue to teach us forever! Great teachers live and leave distinctive footprints. Great teachers, though they go, their footprints forever live in our minds and inspire the body and the soul in a distinctive way !

Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in these desert regions.

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.

God will not give me humility, or patience, or holiness, or love as separate investments of His grace. He has given only one gift to meet our need, His Son Christ Jesus.

Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for.

This message God was communicating to mankind, this Gospel of Jesus, was a message to the heart as much as to the head, that the methodology was as important as the message itself, that the message could not be presented accurately outside of the emotions within which these truths were embedded.

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

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.

Happiness is activity of soul.

Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory _ not getting stuff done.