'Christianity is no new philosophy; it is a new life which grows out of a new relationship with God which involves our whole being.'

'The sovereign God of Christianity is not the God of those who looked for a show of military might to settle their grievances, and who therefore could not recognize Jesus as the Messiah when he came . …Great harm has been done to theology and (more importantly) to tender consciences when the idea of sovereignty has not been adequately qualified by the ideas of Fatherhood and love.'

'[A]ll our talk about God must be anchored in what we know of him in Christ; otherwise, we shall arrive at an unworthy view of God. Why do we say of our God that he is love and not hate? Because of what we see in Christ.'

'Our first need is to stand right before God; it is not to play metaphysical games. As we know it, and as, given our sin, it had to be, the incarnation is no continuation of an inevitable process of God's self-revelation. It is a dramatic and victorious rescue bid which entails his utter self-giving. It is grace at work.'

'It is not too much to say that the fullness of God consists in God's self-emptying, God's power to give up God's very life for the sake of others, indeed of every other. It is this which we see in the Incarnation: Christ empties himself for the sake of humanity, and in this act of supreme self-surrender Christ affirms the fullness of God's almighty love.'

'God's power is most visible in the helpless and broken figure of Jesus of Nazareth hanging dying on the cross.'

'[T]heology does not concern abstract speculation or the appropriation of impersonal systems of dogma; it concerns serious and hard-nosed consideration of what it means to be the church, to be a Christian, to be a participant in God's mission to a lost and alienated humanity."

'Koinonia is never a cozy club for pious denial. It is the joint venture of a surgical team committed to the health and wholeness of one another.'