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.

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

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.

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 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.

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