We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

No one can whistle a symphony.

The Christian message is not an exhortation - "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.

The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing of intense faith and experience.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a person.