The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.

What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.