"Tignan mo, sa dulo ng lahat, yung ebidensya na nasa harap natin— yung confident na pagpupumilit ng unang mga Kristyano na talagang bakante ang libingan at tunay na nakita nila si Jesus, at dahil sa experience na iyon sila'y naniniwala, nabago ang mga pananaw nila sa buhay, at determinadong pinanghawakan nila ang mga paniniwala nila kahit sa harap ng kamatayan— ang ebidensyang ito ay maipapaliwang lamang ng nag-iisang posibilidad:

Si Jesus ay talagang, tunay, pisikal, at historically na muling nabuhay mula sa kamatayan."

“Peter observed that those who are not practicing these virtues have forgotten their baptism and their forgiveness of sins. In other words, they are not living as forgiven sinners. They are behaving like unconverted people. … If members of the church are living immoral lives, they bear witness that forgiveness of sins means little to them” —Tom Schreiner

“Simon, Simon, behold Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers” —Luke 22:31-32

“We have now reached the last summit of the mountain chain of Psalms. It rises high into the clear azure, and its brow is bathed in the sunlight of the eternal world of worship. . . . The poet-prophet is full of inspiration and enthusiasm. He stays not to argue, to teach, to explain: but cries with burning words, “Praise him, Praise him, Praise ye the Lord.”

—Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“This is the God who makes his people sing in thanksgiving, contrition, petition, lament, and reflection. Taken together, these psalms indicate the kind of relationship that God wants his people to have with him. It is deeply authentic, not the kind of religion characterized by mumbo jumbo, merely formal religious duties, self-importance, and religious arrogance, all of it carefully masking a stinking hypocrisy. The intensity of the psalms conspires to underscore that God cannot be deceived by religious rituals. He wants his image-bearers to enjoy a real relationship with him, the true and living God.”  —D. A. Carson

“When Christians unite around something other than the gospel, they create community that would likely exist even if God didn’t. As a modern-day tower of Babel, that community glorifies their strength instead of God’s.” —Jamie Dunlop

“Whatsoever number of millions of millions of years we can imagine before the creation of the world, yet God was infinitely before those; he is therefore called the ‘Ancient of Days’ (Dan 7:9), as being before all days and time and eminently containing in himself all times and ages. . . . All created things are new and fresh, but no creature can find out any beginning of God: it is impossible there should be any beginning of him.”—Stephen Charnock

"Hast Thou not bid me seek Thy faceAnd shall I seek in vain?And can the ear of sovereign graceBe deaf when I complain?No still the ear of sovereign graceAttends the mourner's prayerOh may I ever find accessTo breathe my sorrows there."—Anne Steele (1717-1778)

“God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him. God’s design to pursue his own glory turns out to be love. And our duty to pursue God’s glory turns out to be a quest for joy.” —John Piper

"‘How rich a treasure we possess in Jesus Christ, our Lord.

His blood, our ransom and defense; His glory, our reward.

The sum of all created things are worthless in compare,

For our inheritance is Him whose praise angels declare."

—Matt Boswell and Matt Papa