God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.

Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.

Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.