“We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.”

“The astonishing paradox of Christ's teaching and of Christian experience is this: if we lose ourselves in following Christ, we actually find ourselves. True self-denial is self-discovery. To live for ourselves is insanity and suicide; to live for God and for man is wisdom and life indeed. We do not begin to find ourselves until we have become willing to lose ourselves in the service of Christ and of our fellows.”

“The gift of singleness is more a vocation than an empowerment, although to be sure God is faithful in supporting those He calls.”

“Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.”

“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.”

“Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.”

“The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.”