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Christmas turns things last end foremost. The people whom the world arranges last in its procession — the weary, the poor, the foolish, the lame, the halt, the blind — these are the ones who come at the very head of the column in the consideration of the Little Child who leads.

— Halford E. Luccock Fares, Please! (1915)

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We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

To the faith that "God is love" and that love is the power that can save the world, many give the jaunty answer "What nonsense!"

The words "God is love" have this deep meaning: that everything that is against love is ultimately doomed and damned.

Keeping Life Out of Confusion (1938)

There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be.

Marching Off the Map: And Other Sermons (1952)

In fact, that is exactly what many of their contemporaries took them to be.

The Questing Spirit: Religion in the Literature of Our Time (1947)

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