Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?