1. Our value and our values, our life, our everything is from Jesus Christ given to us as a gift.
  2. God is consistently rooting us in reality—both what is seen and unseen—because that is where he is.
  3. At the heart of The Idiot is Dostoevsky's confession of faith and the confession of all Christians.
  4. Faith is like a horse with blinders because it only beholds God’s promise. It is obsessed with what God has already said.
  5. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  6. Vilification of the other is married to the justification of the self.
  7. History is the painful realization that we aren’t the ones who can save the world but, rather, we’re the ones who get saved.
  8. In Jesus, the most totalizing summary of the law becomes the gospel of the one made perfect through obedience.
  9. Whatever body part you are, the body of Christ is no pod person. Together, we’re a living, breathing, deathless whole.
  10. 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.
  11. Moses is no Jesus but he, like us, is saved by Him. The law cannot enter the promised land, and yet the true and greater promised land is occupied by nothing but lawbreakers.