Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.
Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.
We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.
There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.