1. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  2. The spirit indeed is willing and desires bodily death as a gentle sleep. It does not consider it to be death; it knows no such thing as death.
  3. In the place of God, Marx sets the material, autonomous, self-creating man.
  4. Neomonasticism—that is, the idea that church work is more important than regular work—implies that God cares more about the spiritual than the physical.
  5. Through Martin Luther, God would unleash a far greater storm than the one which overwhelmed Luther on July 2, 1505.
  6. Following Jesus, we gimp our way down the dark and slippery paths of life. As we do, we discover, ironically, that the longer we follow him, the weaker we become, and the more we lean on our Lord.
  7. Christian mercy should not seek its own. It must be round, and open its eyes and look at all alike, friend and foe, as our heavenly Father does.
  8. The only solution to free will is the announcement from a preacher that the Father forgives us for Christ's sake.
  9. When the Law is viewed in its true light, when its "glory" is revealed, it is found to do nothing more than to kill man and sink him into condemnation.
  10. The point Luther made, again and again, was that distance between God and sinners is collapsed when the crucified Christ himself comes to sinners through a preacher.
  11. I wanted the devotions of this book to be a source of strength for everyone who has waited all night to see the sun come up again.
  12. If you sit where Joseph sits, then you also face the choice that Joseph faced. Do you respond with vengeance?