35 quotes found
“Confession is a difficult Discipline for us because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else h...”
“Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.”
“True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.”
“Radical self-denial gives the feel of adventure. If we forsake all, we even have the chance of glorious martyrdom. But in service, we must experience the many little death of going beyond ourselves...”
“Confession is a difficult discipline for us, because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else ...”
“If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, tha...”
“Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.”
“Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.”
“Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed”
“Freedom from anxiety is characterized by three inner attitudes. If what we have we received as a gift, and if what we have is to be cared for by God, and if what we have is available to others, the...”
“The purpose of the Disciplines is freedom. Our aim is the freedom, not the Discipline. The moment we make the Discipline our central focus we will turn it into law and lose the corresponding freedo...”
“If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.”
“Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.”
“To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion”
“Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.”
