God's Outrageous Claims: Thirteen Discoveries That Can Transform Your Life (Strobel, Lee)

The Bible says simply, “You do not have, because you do not ask God.”10 We need to come right out and express to him the desire of our heart.

we keep each other’s ethical edge finely honed when we open ourselves to Christian counsel.23

While faith isn’t literally contagious, we can benefit from hanging around with people who have deep and abiding beliefs.

Faith isn’t just believing something — it’s belief and behavior. It’s believing something and taking action in accordance with what we believe. Someone once defined faith as “belief gone courageous.”

when we choose instead to see them from the perspective of their value to God, we begin to recognize that they have supreme worth because they bear God’s image,

an ongoing relationship with God can become severely strained by a refusal to extend forgiveness to those who have inflicted harm.

“All of us are tempted to believe that, because we haven’t got the answers to the hard questions of faith, there aren’t any answers to those questions,”

Freedom isn’t doing whatever we want; freedom is fulfilling what we were created to become.

just because different religious viewpoints are equally protected, they therefore must be equally valid. That’s just not the case.