It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

God's grace is not limited by any ecclesiastical barriers.