The overemphasis on standardized tests forces teachers to teach the same restricted, unintuitive curriculum. Longtime educator Brent Evans has said that today’s schools are organized as assembly lines, “(running at a set speed) and with...

You have the chief spark of your health’s fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

personal influence,” and gave his junior hints on the setting of kindly traps, in which the boy does give himself away and reveals his shy delicate thoughts, while the master, intact, commends or corrects them.Originally...

freedom of religion.

Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming...

Never go into venture capital if you want a peaceful life.

The only way to be productive is to realize we don’t HAVE TO be productive. Our goal is to PLEASE God, not APPEASE God.

Zero preparation gives zero results. 0x0= 0

The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

The cross is a crisis point for all societies which seek to produce me in and women of quiescence, men and women who are trained to give unquestioning, uncritical obedience to worldly powers and not...

Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely give men mandates, signposts, scaffolding and appealing images that tend to...

Jesus did not spend the same amount of time with everyone. He chose twelve and spent a majority of his time with them. There were toxic people that he spent hardly any time with. For...

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

You know your Bible too well and life too little.

Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world...

Your commitment to Jesus is a beautiful thing, but it will eventually dwindle down, unless you fully understand His commitment to you.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them.

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person’s soul, into their being, before they can effect change.

The generation of American men who fought the Second World War were too struck by the scale of the effort – and the stakes of the effort – to see the war as a stage...

When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not focusing on God’s agenda, we are focusing on our own. God’s agenda is guaranteed on our agenda is...

in the soup” of actual circumstances.

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

There are no shortcuts to maturity in discipleship; it was, is, and always will be learned over time and under pressure walking in union with Christ.”~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They’re personal problems that spill over into relationships.

If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;

Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone’s core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.

Evangelism cant be our focus! We must not stop sharing the good news, but here’s the deal, here’s the wonderful thing, it gets done along the way as you do discipleship. Great commission is just...

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

My life is too short, and God’s work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.

We have the “spotless Lamb of God” bound up in a human body. This is the One who loved us so much that He was willing to reduce Himself to a human egg. The Immaculate...

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

Innovators “view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.

A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.

I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.

Character is the main object of education.

Jesus is dangerous to society, to the status quo, and to contemporary piety. This clarity of preaching cannot be allowed to continue. It is like a cold, a virus that infects all who suffer and...

Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to...

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

We are caught in the in between of what we already are what we are yet to be.

I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

On Christ’s attitude toward His disciples: “If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?

You can get second things only by putting first things first,

God’s way leads always into trial, so far as sight and sense are concerned. Nature always will be tried in God’s ways.