Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

Do not be more devoted to your own brain than you are to the Bible.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is

Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.