“A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter”

“Freedom to order our own conduct in the sphere where material circumstances force a choice upon us, and responsibility for the arrangement of our own life according to our own conscience, is the air in which alone moral sense grows and in which moral values are daily recreated in the free decision of the individual. Responsibility, not to a superior, but to one's own conscience, the awareness of a duty not exacted by compulsion, the necessity to decide which of the things one values are to be sacrificed to others, and to bear the consequences of one's own decision, are the very essence of any morals which deserve the name.”

“Our moral decisions about ourselves can be spiritual. Our moral decisions about other people can only be practical.”

“Once your decisions take on the impractical responsibility of validating the choices of others, your decisions cease to be your own.”

“Our survival as spiritual beings depends upon our ability to open our wild hearts in love and resonance with all of nature.”

“The Christian is free from all other human beings. He does not have to live over against others, controlled by their actions and responses. Rather, he lives according to Christ's commands. This is Christian freedom. It is a freedom unknown by others. It is not just when others do the things that we like that we act properly toward them; we are free to do good even when they don't because our actions are not dependent on their responses. It is the Lord Christ when we serve!”