Live in the kingdom of God in such a way that it provokes questions for which the gospel is the answer.

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.

It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.

Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.

It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.

The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to the ends of the earth.

Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.

God's grace is not limited by any ecclesiastical barriers.

The living God is a God of justice and mercy and He will be satisfied with nothing less than a people in whom his justice and mercy are alive.

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.

His [Gough Whitlam's] effect on the geo-cultural-political map of Australia is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

Usually guys with your skill set like to eat bugs; I don't get that dude.

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.