Tom Gilson > Quotes

“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.”
― Tom Gilson, Too Good to be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality

“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.”
― Tom Gilson, Too Good to be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality

“Jesus never let his extraordinary powers control him. He never even use them for his own benefit. It was always for others.”
― Tom Gilson, Too Good to be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality

“When he gave his Sermon on the Mount, it was entirely on his own authority. No sources needed; just his word.”
― Tom Gilson, Too Good to be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality

“In his passion he displays perfectly the paradox of power expressed in humility explainable only by his purpose, to die for our sins.”
― Tom Gilson, Too Good to be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality

“Jesus never walked away from a conversation saying, 'You know I could've said that better.' He got it right every single time.”
― Tom Gilson, Too Good to be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality

“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.”
― Tom Gilson, Too Good to be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality

“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.”
― Tom Gilson, Too Good to be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality

“Power and love meet in Jesus like they never have in any other person, or even any other character in literature.”
― Tom Gilson, Too Good to be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality

“Jesus' story can still surprise you. Does that surprise you?”
― Tom Gilson, Too Good to be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality

“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

“Jesus knew his mission required truly committed and trained followers, not casual bread-seekers.”
― Tom Gilson, Too Good to be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality

“Everything Jesus did, he did brilliantly. Yet in almost every case, he did it in ways unlike the rest of us would.”
― Tom Gilson, Too Good to be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality