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

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.

On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.