Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.

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

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

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

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.

[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself against the social injustices which insult God the Creator, seeks to protect human beings from oppression and longs to liberate them… it protests against every authoritarian regime, whether of the left or of the right, which discriminates against minorities, denies people their civil rights, forbids the free expression of opinions or imprisons people for their views alone.