The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.

Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.

Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.

The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.

All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.

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.