Lee Strobel Quotes.

21. "says he ‘welcomes sinners and eats with them.’14 Now, think about that. In his culture, to dine with someone meant to offer friendship. The word welcome in Greek means that he took great pleasure in them. Jesus doesn’t delight in sin, but he liked being around these people, maybe because they were well aware of their depravity, unlike many of the religious folks who masked it with hypocrisy."
- Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

22. "Are you sure? I asked. I thought there was a story in Buddhist literature that parallels the Prodigal Son parable. Well, they’re similar to the degree that they both involve sons who rebelled and left home, then later saw the error of their ways and came back. But the Buddhist story ends quite differently — the son has to work off his misdeeds. How? He ends up toiling for twenty-five years, hauling dung. So that provides a stark contrast between the God of grace and a religion where people have to work their way to nirvana."
- Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

23. "Over the next 1,364 days, the Khmer Rouge, seeking to obliterate the social classes and create an agrarian society of peasants, was responsible for killing, starving, or working to death about two million Cambodians, out of a population of eight million. Accounting for the percentage of people destroyed, Pol Pot’s Communist regime was the most murderous in the modern age."
- Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

24. "Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched,’ says C. S. Lewis."
- Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

25. "We can never sink so far that God’s grace will not reach us. At the same time, grace does not leave us there. It raises us to new heights."
- Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

26. "Hazen thought for a moment, then concluded: You know, even if all religions were figments of our imagination, I would choose Christianity, because it says you can be assured that you’re right with God. There’s no need for performance anxiety or laboring through lifetime after lifetime. As the Bible says in 1 John 5:13: ‘I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life."
- Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

27. "Afterward, an evangelical student seemed bothered. He said, ‘I’m having trouble seeing the difference between what they do and what we do. It felt the same.’ As I explained to this student, it’s true that people in other religious movements can have wonderful experiences that make them feel spiritually uplifted. In fact, good feelings can be generated in so many different ways that we ought not let our feelings dictate which religious direction we’re going to go."
- Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

28. "Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is an illusion.— BRENNAN MANNING"
- Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

29. "Islam is essentially a system of trying to please God, and yet nobody can have confidence that they’ve done enough to warrant paradise,"
- Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

30. "Jesus’s death has infinite value because he’s an infinite God; it was enough to cover all the sins of the world. If we say some sin is too terrible, then we’re saying Jesus fell short in his mission. Grace is only grace if it’s available even to the Duchs of the world. In fact, he said, straightening himself in his chair, here’s a difficult thing for us to comprehend: God loves Duch as much as he loves you and me."
- Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives