To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.

People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.