Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.
Max LucadoIn this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes; they're resistant to me making declarations of truth to them. A story can do that in kind of a Trojan-horse fashion.
Max LucadoThe Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.
Max Lucado