I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.

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.

Likewise, the world of action, of politics, is reduced to a conflict of views about how to keep the cycle of production and consumption going. Questions of ultimate purpose are excluded from the public world.

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.

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.