1. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  2. Good, we tend to think, is the absence of evil. But this reversal of the formula can only have disastrous consequences.
  3. If you are going to lose your life for the gospel’s sake, you must begin by hearing it.
  4. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  5. Our challenge today is to inspire trust and curiosity so this generation will openly ask the question, who speaks the words of truth?
  6. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  7. Sometimes I think we should be more tempted to laugh at the gospel than we are, not in derision but in sheer surprise and awe.
  8. With every bone in our bodies, we declare war on grace. We declare war on the gift.
  9. The world hates Jesus because he comes to lead us to love and forgive all, including our enemies.