discipleship

When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay

Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

It is possible to feel angered by the compromises all around us, while remaining apathetic to the compromises inside us.

I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak.

The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself,

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

We must evaluate every person, place, product, perspective, position, or pleasure we have looked to in place of the promises of God, and turn away from those things accordingly.

Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching.

Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.

The further you go, the more you're going to need the people you started with.

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.

The God of the universe--the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor--loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

If you eat, breathe and grow, two things are happening__hich have little to do with either air or burgers. You are receiving an education and your __pirit_ is being formed. To be alive is to be formed.

Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach.

It is easier to lose a thosuand disciples than to win over one.