“You don’t want to be the gardener who gets so focused on pulling weeds that he forgets he is doing so in order to grow something else. It is supposed to be a flower garden, not a no-weeds dirt patch.”

Mines of Difficulty, p. 68

“How should you deal with it when your theology tells you that you area living on the edge of a precipice? You should go out to the workshop. You should plant a tree. You should make dinner.”

Mines of Difficulty, p. 64

“In the flesh, people who like to test things tend to be ornery; they like to see people crash and burn. In the flesh, people who are eager to hold fast to that which is good tend to want everything to be good; everybody gets a participant ribbon. And these two errors feed off each other.”

Mines of Difficulty, p. 57

[Concerning Heb. 13:7,17; 1 Thess. 5:12-13]
“These exhortations require the leaders of the church to know the names of those they are responsible for, and it requires the members of the church to know the names of those they are responsible to. The requirements are gibberish otherwise.”

Mines of Difficulty, p. 56