Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.

If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.

The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.

There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.