We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.

God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.

When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is the most luminously revealed, whether the justice of God in judging sin, or the love of God in bearing the judgment in our place, or the wisdom of God in perfectly combining the two, or the power of God in saving those who believe. For the cross is equally an act, and therefore a demonstration, of God’s justice, love, wisdom and power. The cross assures us that this God is the reality within, behind and beyond the universe.