Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.

Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross

To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense? If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? In any truly personal relationship, the other person has to be able to contradict you.

The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.

Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.

Because we put ourselves in God’s place, He put Himself in our place.

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.