To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Without a mythology faith is impersonal and heartless.

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

There is no logic to grief.

Without conflict, there can be no trust. Conflict exists to show us who is there for us unconditionally and who is just there for the benefits. No one trusts a yes-man.

The Christian imagination bas produced nothing but an insipid legend.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Nothing in Christianity is original.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.

There are no special attributes to distinguish Christianity from any other collection of baseless lies. If there were no Christians tomorrow, we’d still have Muslims and a slough of other indefensible belief systems.

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

Without conflict, there can be no trust. Conflict exists to show us who is there for us unconditionally and who is just there for the benefits. (p.183)

Without the presuppositions of the Christian faith the individual is either nothing or becomes everything.

[M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty. In short … there is nothing so intrinsically plausible as the theory of original sin.