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

there really is no way we can lose when we make the daily choice to do business by the Book.

To doubt is to waver between the two, to believe and disbelieve at once and so to be ‘in two minds.’

I am not looking for perfect, but I am looking for real.

Going deep requires disclosure. Transparency should be appropriate, equal, and gradual, and it should come after trust and confidentiality have been established, but at some point it has to come, or the relationship will remain shallow and ultimately un-fulfilling.

five hundred people sharing the same hallucination would be a bigger miracle than the Resurrection itself !

By simply dropping your end of the cord, you’re loosening the tension and preserving the possibility that the still-loose knot might somehow be untangled by the two of you. This maintains the hope —however faint — that reconciliation might someday occur.

When we’re receiving teaching that doesn’t square with Scripture, it’s time to question the teacher — and let our doubts lead us away from harm.

When we send our kids mixed signals, we get mixed-up kids.

“People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be,” said D. L.Moody, “not what you nag them to be.”