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1 " Jesus never plays it the way we would have; he was the master of the unexpected answer. "
― Tom Gilson , Too Good to be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality
2 " When he gave his Sermon on the Mount, it was entirely on his own authority. No sources needed; just his word. "
3 " His death on the cross, too, has often been called "the great equalizer," because he died for all, thus showing that we're all equally human with equal worth in God's eyes. "
4 " While skeptics just love pointing out that people die for lies all the time, we never find people dying for lies they made up themselves. "
5 " Jesus never let his extraordinary powers control him. He never even use them for his own benefit. It was always for others. "
6 " In his passion he displays perfectly the paradox of power expressed in humility explainable only by his purpose, to die for our sins. "
7 " Everything Jesus did, he did brilliantly. Yet in almost every case, he did it in ways unlike the rest of us would. "
8 " Jesus' story can still surprise you. Does that surprise you? "
9 " Power and love meet in Jesus like they never have in any other person, or even any other character in literature. "
10 " It isn't just that he didn't have to die for our sins. He didn't even have to be born. He chose it freely, in willing obedience to the father. "
11 " Jesus never walked away from a conversation saying, 'You know I could've said that better.' He got it right every single time. "
12 " Jesus wasn't speaking for God as a prophet did, yet he spoke with the authority of God. The only way to make sense of that is to recognize he was speaking as God. "
13 " Jesus knew his mission required truly committed and trained followers, not casual bread-seekers. "
