To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.

The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.

Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.

Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.

If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.