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.

God continues to speak through what He has spoken.

So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to 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 biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.

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

The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.