If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.

Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.

If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.