The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.

Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.

Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.

We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am... because I do this, therefore I’m a child of God.’ But only in Christianity does the imperative flow from the indicative. ‘Because I am in Christ all these things, therefore I obey.’ Exactly the opposite.

If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.

Prayer turns theology into experience.