Jesus Christ is the assurance that all of life, the life of every human and of the rest of creation, originates in and ends in the life of God. Your life, or mine, or that of anybody, issues from the word of God. This is and remains the essential truth about you or me or anybody, no matter whatever else may seem to be true. 1963

The work of God which is conversion is truly saving in the most personal sense. There is not – as some folk vainly preach – an element of self-denial or constriction in conversion. The converted do not denounce or give up that which they were before as persons. In conversion, that which they were before as persons is restored to them in maturity and fulfilment. 1963

William Stringfellow