The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.

Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created.

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

The poor are not a problem to be solved but a people to join.