1. The one who embodies the dove, that is, the Holy Spirit will be mounted upon the staff of Calvary.
  2. Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
  3. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  4. If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
  5. Our comfort in this seemingly endless age of crisis after crisis is the inexhaustible hope of Jesus’s reversal.
  6. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  7. With every bone in our bodies, we declare war on grace. We declare war on the gift.
  8. The relationship between faith and prayer or belief and worship is mutual. Faith produces prayer and prayer expresses faith.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.”