...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.

The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

There's a great deal about Roman Catholicism that I basically disagree with. For instance, the doctrine of Mary which... I have studied that stuff and I simply don't think that has any mileage at all biblically, theologically, and I've got some friends who are very disappointed that I say that.

Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.

Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.

It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out.

The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.