This man, since He was a Jew, could not mean that kind of God. God, in their language, meant the Being outside the world, who had made it and was infinitely different from anything else.

The pure in heart have a child-like simplicity like Adam before the fall, innocent alike of good and evil: their hearts are not ruled by their conscience, but by the will of Jesus.

The Ordeal can be defined as the moment the hero faces his greatest fear. For most people this is death, but in many stories it's just whatever the hero is most afraid of: facing up to a phobia, challenging a rival, or roughing out a storm or a political crisis.

Before God can deliver us from ourselves, we must undeceive ourselves.

Fear is debilitating, distracting, tiring and often irrational. The task is not to ignore fear, but to explain it away. Take what you're afraid of - when fear strikes you- and break it apart.

The acknowledgment of the spirit of God in the heart of man and its realization in life is the only true faith.

Some say that feedback is the “breakfast of champions.” But it isn’t. Vision is the breakfast. Feedback is the lunch. Self-correction is the dinner.

The corruption of Christianity and its acceptance in its corrupt form by the majority of men was as necessary as it is that the seed should remain hidden for a certain time in the earth in order to germinate.

Nothing is as good or as bad as it seems.

Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated.