It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.

Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.

To stand in the presence of God, that is what the Gospel is. The Gospel is not primarily about forgiveness. It’s not primarily about good feelings. It’s not primarily about power. All those things are byproducts, sparks. It’s primarily about the presence of God.

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.

We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.