When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

The Devil may also make use of morality.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.