There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

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 basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.