Martin Luther said, when Christians are evangelizing, they’re like one beggar simply telling another beggar where to find bread.

Many skeptics only appear to be liberals; they’re actually a species of fundamentalist.

‘An ounce of evidence is worth a pound of presumption.’

we need to quit turning Jesus into our buddy. He’s the sovereign Lord of the universe, and we need to understand that and respond accordingly.”

Indeed, the attitude of many Americans is that they like Jesus but not the church, which they see as exclusivistic, condemning, intolerant, and intent on strapping people into a straitjacket of rigid dogma.

if Jesus really is God—if he really did sacrifice himself so that we could be forgiven and set free to experience his love forever—then why should we hesitate to give all of ourselves to him? Who could be more trustworthy than someone who lays down his life so that others might live?

the divine nature of Jesus should never militate against his full humanity.

“Given a choice, we tend to select beliefs that elevate who we are, that diminish personal responsibility, that give us greater freedom to call ‘good’ what the scriptures call ‘sin,’

True tolerance grants people the right to dissent.”