As they said...

Final thoughts on last week's conference at Holy Trinity, Brompton...or rather some quotes from some of the sessions:

"..the Spirit in us is God pressing us towards what we are made for" (Archbishop Rowan Williams)

"Either Christianity is fire or there is no such thing" (Mother Maria Skobtsova, as quoted by Rowan Williams)

"...the opposite of poverty is not property, the opposite of poverty is community" (Jurgen Moltmann)

"A presupposed spirit is certainly not the Holy Spirit" (Karl Barth, as quoted by Graham Hunter in Ecclesiology seminar)

"The presence of the church introduces a fissure in the citizenship of the state..." (Miroslav Volf)

"The Spirit enables us to see a new beauty in God that we couldn't see before" (Graham Tomlin, interacting with the work of Jonathan Edwards)

"The Spirit enables us to do for ourselves what we could not do by ourselves" (Tom Smail)

"The Holy Spirit hates stereotypes" (Tom Smail)

There were many more - I don't have all my notes in front of me now. But there's a bit of a flavour at least.