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A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side — the "unsearchable riches of Christ" — are actually transported into personal lives upon the other. Here lies the difference between a sermon and a lecture.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick The Living of These Days (1956)

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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Riverside Sermons (1958)

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

On Being a Real Person (1943)

The present world situation smells to heaven!

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Living Under Tension (1941)

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