Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.

A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?

Saints cannot exist without a community