The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

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

Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

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.

Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.

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