The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is both rational and contingent. Such a belief is the presupposition of modern science and cannot by any conceivable argument be a product of science. One has to ask: Upon what is this belief founded?

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

The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation is irreversibly changed.

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.

Live in the kingdom of God in such a way that it provokes questions for which the gospel is the answer.

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

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.