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

— Halford E. Luccock

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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)

There is far-reaching appropriateness in the fact that the world's immortal baby story, that of Bethlehem, should be a story of turning things upside down — for that is a baby's chief business.

Fares, Please! (1915)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

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)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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