Much of our effort to do things for the Lord is really the resurgence of our desire to dominate and make things happen in our own strength.

Spirituality has thus come to be regarded by the world as those futile, self-torturing excesses of strange men and women who lived in far-off, benighted places and times. Accordingly, the One who came to give abundance of life is commonly thought of as a cosmic stuffed shirt, whose excessive "spirituality" probably did not allow him normal bodily functions and certainly would not permit him to throw a frisbee or tackle someone in a football game.

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.