Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: "The Maker of all things loves and wants me.

If reduced to a single phrase, the Bible's message would be something like this: God gets his family back. The Bible tells the story of how God, wanting to live in harmony with all that he had made, set out to win a rebellious world back to himself.

The novelist Reynolds Price says there is one sentence above all that people crave from stories: The Maker of all things loves and wants me. Christians still believe in that truth.

It makes all the difference in the world whether I view my neighbor as a potential convert or as someone whom God already loves.

Modern humanity does not perceive the world as worth God dying for. We Christians must demonstrate it.

There is a simple cure for people who doubt God's love and question God's grace: to turn to the Bible and examine the kind of people God loves.

Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.

To the question Do I matter? Jesus is indeed the answer.

Not even God, with all his power, can force a human being to love.

The One who had the right to destroy the world—and had nearly done so once in Noah's day—chose instead to love the world, at any cost.

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is gooder than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all.

I find a simple answer in the Bible's overarching theme that God is love. That quality, more than anything else, makes clear the reason behind all creation. Love cannot really exist without an object to receive it.