Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children.

Life as usual must go. It will be replaced by something far better.

Prayer, it is rightly said, is the method of genuine theological research, the method of understanding what and who God is.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

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 the natural expression of who we are in him.

Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs.