Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.

Scripture is the royal scepter by which King Jesus rules his church

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.

It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.

Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.

The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.