1. If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
  2. With every bone in our bodies, we declare war on grace. We declare war on the gift.
  3. The relationship between faith and prayer or belief and worship is mutual. Faith produces prayer and prayer expresses faith.
  4. We worry about the fact our days are as grass – so we try to scratch out a place for ourselves, to make a permanent, lasting place, to climb to higher places and succeed, more often than not, only to hurt each other in the process.
  5. Armed with great analogies, airtight logic, and razor sharp wit, Lewis keeps you spellbound from one chapter to another as you find yourself going “further up and further in.”
  6. History won’t judge us, Jesus will. We already have his judgment. He gave it to us from the cross, where he acquitted us with his death.
  7. God has found a way to be God even for the likes of us. He has found a way to save sinners.
  8. False holiness is always a possession and achievement of the individual in isolation from the good of others. And so it isn’t holiness at all.
  9. You can die now, you can let go, and because that is true, you can begin to live!
  10. Only in Christ has God taken upon himself the worst that could ever happen between God and man: he has allowed himself to be rejected.
  11. An immense amount of ink has been spilled contesting and interpreting Bonhoeffer's significance as a figure of Christian history and a theologian of the church.