“Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.”

“[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.”