As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.

Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.

I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.

There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.

Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.

The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.