Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.

The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of production for the sake of consumption. The modern concept of "built-in obsolescence" makes this clear. The cycle of production and consumption has to be kept going, and the work of the artist or craftsman who aims to create something enduring becomes marginal to the economic order.

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

Congregational life wherein each member has his opportunity to contribute to the life of the whole body, those gifts with which the Spirit endows him, is as much of the essence of the Church as are ministry and sacraments.

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.

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.