1. As much as we want the glory, riches, and knowledge of Dantes, what we need is Jean Valjean's candlesticks.
  2. How can he say it? How can he say that Christ is after all the entire meaning of life for him, and that death is no real worry?
  3. God knows that when we face insurmountable odds in our moments of weakness, we are more likely to turn to him in trust and reliance.
  4. The Lord has remembered to help his servant Israel, to fulfill his promises to Abraham and to his offspring forever, not mostly or mainly because of his mercy, but exclusively so.
  5. We have to “remember” that God remembers us. He has not fallen away. For God to remember us means he is working for our good; a restoration.
  6. Faith sees your neighbor not as a means to an end, not as a way to score points, but as an object of love: Christ's love and yours.
  7. Jesus’s story in Luke 16 draws definitive attention to whom God helps — namely, God always comes close in order to help those who cannot help themselves.
  8. It is of the utmost importance that pastors teach their congregation that through faith in Jesus Christ, they are fortified against the machinations of the adversary.
  9. Christ shows up in the middle of our storms and our nightmares. That’s where he sets up shop.
  10. Lewis takes us to the planets to satisfy our cravings for spiritual adventure, which, as he says, “sends our imaginations off the Earth,” in the first place.
  11. God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.