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Christmas is good news in a world of bad news. This was so on the first Christmas and on Christmas 1959 … Christmas brings hope to a dark world.

— Halford E. Luccock Whoops! It's Christmas (1959)

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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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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

Edward Teller

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

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