Lesslie Newbigin Quotes
- Congregational life wherein each member has his opportunity to contribute to the life of the whole body, those gifts with which the Spirit endows him,…
- Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.
- Christ is the clue to all that is.
- It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she…
- I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
- God's grace is not limited by any ecclesiastical barriers.
- To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out…
- The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to the…
- The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation…
- The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in…
- The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.
- The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich,…
- ...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the…
- A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the…