Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.

If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.

We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.