consciousness simply cannot be synonymous with brain activity.”

universities are contributing to the infantilization of our culture by prohibiting any speech that causes offense or discomfort.”

“We’re not machines. Our brain and our mind are fundamentally distinct, though they work together. The brain offers a third-person perspective; it’s the mind that provides a first-person experience.”

hell can’t be erased; it can’t be ignored. It can’t be papered over with thin tissues of bad exegesis or philosophized out of existence, and so we need to study it with fear and trembling, with tears and courage—and then resolve once more to bring as many people to heaven with us as we can.

“There has never been an era in which the church hasn’t believed in heaven.

“People often talk about an epidemic of suicide,” concluded Jones, “but the real epidemic is the increasing rejection of a robust belief in an afterlife. That’s what is miring more and more people in hopelessness.”

I’ve measured the electrical activity of people’s brains, but I can’t measure their experience in the same way. I can’t measure what’s in their minds. I can’t measure what it’s actually like to be you. Why not? Because the brain alone is not enough to explain the mind.”

God’s generosity is the opposite of human envy.

God isn’t willing that any perish; hell is the result of humans freely separating themselves from him and his love.”