The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

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

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt?