“There is nothing in the world or the Church — except the church's disobedience — to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.”
“nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible.”
“[O]nly if the form of Christ can be lived out in the community of the church is the confession of the church true; only if Christ can be practiced is Jesus Lord. No matter how often the subsequent history of the church belied this confession, it is this presence within time of an eschatological and dvine peace, really incarnate in the person of Jesus and forever imparted to the body of Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit, that remains the very essence of the church's evangelical appeal to the world at large, and of the salvation it proclaims. (1-2)”
“The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion”
“A church that's lost it's voice for justice is a church that's lost it's relevance in the world.”
“Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.”