We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were….

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe..

If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their charact….

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together..

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters..

Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of the church fo….

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character..

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do..

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life..

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you..

Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with ….

A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess certain views as their own ….

The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are..

Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes th….

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon..

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become..

The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Chris….

The first act of love is always the giving of attention..

When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be truste….

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity..

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent..