It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.

...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."

The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.

The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.

Christ is the clue to all that is.

The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich, while the poor majority rot in their poverty-this is surely something against which a Christian should be a nonconformist.

Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.