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The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person … Our task is … the sharing of intense faith and experience.

— Halford E. Luccock

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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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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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