discipleship

You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.

Workers who can consistently decide with clarity and ease which tasks are most important when under pressure are the most prized in every organization. Highly focused in pressure-cooker situations, they rise to meet the challenges of an opportunity-saturated workplace that demands tough calls at every step.

The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot

Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one.

My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me.

Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don't see the full picture. That's the point. That's what faith is. You can't see it. It comes back to instinct. Faith is just up the street. Faith and instinct, you can't just rely on them. You have to beat them up. You have to pummel them to make sure they can withstand it, to make sure they can be trusted.

The game isn't big enough unless it scares you a little. Cmdr. William Riker

We will have to work hard to rest.

Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery, transformation, God and Grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process.

The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.

In the sympathy of Christ we find a sustaining power.

The Holy Ghost is no temporary gift, He abides with the saints. We have but to seek Him aright, and He will be found of us. He is jealous, but He is pitiful; if He leaves in anger, He returns in mercy. Condescending and tender, He does not weary of us, but awaits to be gracious still.