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That pastor effects the most in the end who comes into closest personal contact with his charge. No amount of organizing, no skill in creating machinery and manipulating "committees" is a substitute for this. Who feels the power of a tear in the eye of a committee?

— John Hall Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Give according to your means, or God will make your means according to your giving.

Direct your arrows at objects without being personal; come near your hearers. Letters dropped into the post-office without address go to the dead-letter office, and are of no use to any body.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

A lazy, indolent church tends toward unbelief; an earnest, busy church, in hand-to-hand conflict with sin and misery, grows stronger in faith.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The text should sustain, suggest, and give tone to the sermon. The main thought of the text should usually be the main thought of the sermon. A text must not be a pretext.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

We can no more have exact religious thinking without theology, than exact mensuration and astronomy without mathematics, or exact iron-making without chemistry

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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