“Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.”

“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 truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.”

“[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself against the social injustices which insult God the Creator, seeks to protect human beings from oppression and longs to liberate them… it protests against every authoritarian regime, whether of the left or of the right, which discriminates against minorities, denies people their civil rights, forbids the free expression of opinions or imprisons people for their views alone.”

“Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique. ”

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

“The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.”