“The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.”

“But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [...]”

“From the pastor who has an affair with his secretary, to the jerk at the office who happens to be a deacon, to the overbearing boss who can’t miss his Monday night Bible study, Christians today cause more problems for the gospel than all the devil’s demons put together.”

“What is missing in our time is not the willingness of God toact in biblical ways, but the willingness of his people to believehe is still the God of the Bible—and to act on that faith. To throwaway fear, to stride against common wisdom, to risk all that wehave and all that we are so we may follow only our simple beliefthat the God of the Scriptures is still alive and that he will stilldo what he says in his Word.”

“Why would you accept the Jesus of the Bible, if you have rejected the Bible of Jesus?”

“Just stand next to the white people. They'll get off by Hundred and Tenth Street." Justin broke down his strategy for securing a seat as we shoved ourselves onto the crowded Number 2 train heading uptown.”

“...he was telling me that our [country's] blood-soaked and atrocity-littered past was important but that the future didn't have to be its slave.”