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“If we cannot speak with confidence about biblical authority, what ground have we for challenging the reigning plausibility structure?”
― Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society

“Native speakers can rarely explain the grammatical rules of their own language. In the same way, those who are most ‘fluentâ€� in the rituals, customs and traditions of a particular culture generally lack the detachment necessary to explain the ‘grammarâ€� of these practices in an intelligible manner. This is why we have anthropologists.”
― Kate Fox, Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour

“And since the gospel does not come as a disembodied message, but as the message of a community which claims to live by it and which invites others to adhere to it, the community's life must be so ordered that it "makes sense" to those who are so invited.”
― Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society

“In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility. The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behaviour must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship