“It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than think your way into a new way of acting.”

“It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.”

“You cannot think your way into a new way of acting, but you can act your way into a new way of thinking.”

“It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.”

“You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.”

“It's as if there's a landscape - we'll call it childhood - which exists in our mind. It's completely familiar. Unspeakably familiar. Until in the middle of the night, when the sky is blackest, lightning cracks through the firmament. And in that crush of sound, amid the madness and the blinding flash, you see your world: home, trees, rooftops, your own hand, in an entirely new way. Illumined by fire. Flashed for half a second and then gone. And it's that image, that savage, rip-through-the-curtain vision, that lingers. Not the reality you see every day. Not the world you walk around in. No, it's that spookhouse glimpse, the scorching peek through the blackness, that stays in the brain.”

“... we did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually alive. ... God comes to us when we're spiritually dead, when we don't even realize our condition, and gives us the spiritual ability to see our plight and to see the solution in Christ. God comes all the way, not partway, to meet us in our need. When we were dead, He made us alive in Christ. And the first act of that new life is to turn in faith to Jesus.”