A good collection from a Facebook friend:

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I ¢â‚¬â„¢m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don ¢â‚¬â„¢t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic  ¢â‚¬” on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg  ¢â‚¬” or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. (Lewis – Mere Christianity, 1952, p. 43)

‘You have enjoyed yourself in religion long enough. You have sung. You have had pleasant feelings, pleasant songs, pleasant meetings, and pleasant prospects. There has been much human happiness, much clapping of hands, very much of Heaven on earth. Now, then, go to God and tell Him you are prepared to turn your back upon it all, and that you are willing to spend the rest of your days grappling with these perishing multitudes’ William Booth

“Preach the gospel at all times — If necessary, use words.” Saint Francis of Assisi

“The time has come! God’s kingdom will soon be here. Turn back to God and believe the good news!” Jesus of Nazareth

“This is true religion. True religion will not let us fall asleep in the comfort of our freedom. Love thy neighbour is not a piece of advice. It ¢â‚¬â„¢s a command. And that means a lot. That means a lot. That means that in the global village we ¢â‚¬â„¢re gonna have to start loving a whole lot more people  ¢â‚¬“ that ¢â‚¬â„¢s what that means. His truth is marching on.” Bono

Jim Wallis, “What matters most today is whether one is a supporter of establishment Christianity or a practitioner of biblical faith. Establishment Christianity has made its peace with the established order. It no longer feels itself to be in conflict with the pretensions of the state, with the designs of economic and political power, or with the values and style of life enshrined in the national culture. Establishment Christianity is a religion of accommodation and conformity, which values realism and success more than faithfulness and obedience” (p. 204).
“When Jesus calls us to his table he calls us by name and he calls us into community.
We may come alone but we can ¢â‚¬â„¢t ignore or disregard those around us.
Now, the question is who are those around us? Who else has Jesus called to this table?”

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will leave the final word in reality . . . I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear”
Martin Luther King Jr.

We can no longer be satisfied by simply being the Church for the poor from our position of establishment. We must realise that sometimes that very generosity, that very attempt to be good to other people, has kept us in a position of power… Richard Rohr

Christian holiness is not (as people often imagine) a matter of denying something good. It is about growing up and grasping something even better. Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamour for vengeance. Made for relationship, we insist on our own way. Made for beauty, we are satisfied with sentiment. But new creation has already begun. The sun has begun to rise. Christians are called to leave behind in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world. It is time, in the power of the Spirit, to take up our proper role, our fully human role, as agents, heralds and stewards of the new day that is dawning. That, quite simply is what it means to be Christian: to follow Jesus Christ into the new world, which he has thrown open before us.

NT Wright – Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense