God has taken us utterly seriously. How can we not do the same with him?

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.

I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.

Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’