“Too narrow a front in battling for a moral crusade, or for a truly biblical involvement in politics, could be disastrous. It could lead to the election of a moron who holds the right view on abortion.”
“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”
"The grounding of Christian ethics in the oppressed community means that the oppressor cannot decide what Christian behavior is."
"Let me tell you this: Faith comes and goes. But if it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will."
“This is the central Christian mystery. Life has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.”
“A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of God that does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that?”
"It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in God. He has only to refuse to believe in everything that is not God."