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

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

Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.

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.

Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.

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

God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.