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> [At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-begg/at-best-we-are-but-clay-animated-dust-but-viewed-as-sinners-we-are/)

[Alistair Begg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-begg/)

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> [“During the judgment against Gog and his hordes, the Israelites will remain under God’s protection. Despite the terrifying events raging around them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-khapitskyi/during-the-judgment-against-gog-and-his-hordes-the-israelites-will/)

[Anton Khapitskyi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-khapitskyi/)

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> [I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-blue/i-feel-that-the-christian-experience-and-the-jewish-one-have-much-to/)

[Lionel Blue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-blue/)

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> [A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/a-knowledge-of-the-existence-of-something-we-cannot-penetrate-of-the/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-feuerbach/wherever-morality-is-based-on-theology-wherever-the-right-is-made/)

[Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-feuerbach/)

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> [In God's eyes, all creatures have value whether we find them cuddly, affectionate, beautiful or otherwise. Our own perspective-in a way-is neither…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-linzey/in-god-s-eyes-all-creatures-have-value-whether-we-find-them-cuddly/)

[Andrew Linzey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-linzey/)

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> [“The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-watson/the-bare-knowledge-of-god-s-will-is-inefficacious-it-doth-not-better/)

[Thomas Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-watson/)

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> [“It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-j-chrisman/it-is-you-i-foreknew-and-have-predestined-for-such-a-time-as-this/)

[M. J. Chrisman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-j-chrisman/)

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> [“The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-hedges/the-more-we-listen-to-the-voices-of-others-voices-unlike-our-own-the/)

[Chris Hedges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-hedges/)

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> [“The presence of the messianic salvation is also seen in Jesus' miracles of healing, for which the Greek word meaning "to save"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eldon-ladd/the-presence-of-the-messianic-salvation-is-also-seen-in-jesus/)

[George Eldon Ladd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eldon-ladd/)

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> [“And those who will carefully study the so-called 'Mosaic code' contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, will see that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-henry-huxley/and-those-who-will-carefully-study-the-so-called-mosaic-code/)

[Thomas Henry Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-henry-huxley/)

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> [The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-parker/the-miraculous-revelation-of-the-old-testament-and-the-new-the/)

[Theodore Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-parker/)

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> [“The mission of Jesus brought not a new teaching but a new event. It brought to people an actual foretaste of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eldon-ladd/the-mission-of-jesus-brought-not-a-new-teaching-but-a-new-event-it/)

[George Eldon Ladd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eldon-ladd/)

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> [“Moving from teaching university students to living with mentally handicapped people was, for me at least, a step toward the platform where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-j-m-nouwen/moving-from-teaching-university-students-to-living-with-mentally/)

[Henri J.M. Nouwen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-j-m-nouwen/)

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> [More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-corapi/more-than-once-i-ve-had-discussions-with-persons-who-say-things-based/)

[John Corapi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-corapi/)

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> [“{ From Luther Burbank 's funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-lindsey/from-luther-burbank-s-funeral-he-was-loved-until-he-revealed-he-was/)

[Ben Lindsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-lindsey/)

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> [It seldom seems to strike the ultra-Darwinists that theology might have its own richness and subtleties, and might strange thought actually tell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-conway-morris/it-seldom-seems-to-strike-the-ultra-darwinists-that-theology-might/)

[Simon Conway Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-conway-morris/)

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> [Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/science-has-eradicated-smallpox-can-immunise-against-most-previously/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [I began to read for myself and realised that here was somebody who could teach me profound biblical theology, get inside my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-b-ferguson/i-began-to-read-for-myself-and-realised-that-here-was-somebody-who/)

[Sinclair B. Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-b-ferguson/)

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> [I think just the above things. I think I wanted to learn from both cultures. So, I think the music is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-getty/i-think-just-the-above-things-i-think-i-wanted-to-learn-from-both/)

[Keith Getty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-getty/)

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> [I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther/i-have-no-pleasure-in-any-man-who-despises-music-it-is-no-invention/)

[Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther/)

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> [“Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don't need more arguments on behalf of God;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-r-meyers/indeed-a-quick-glance-around-this-broken-world-makes-it-painfully/)

[Robin R. Meyers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-r-meyers/)

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> [“All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-j-chrisman-2/all-life-is-bound-to-a-simple-truth-that-time-goes-on-that-in-each/)

[M.J. Chrisman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-j-chrisman-2/)

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> [“Christianity tells us we have free will. God has provided man with a choice whether to believe in Him or not. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-mcandrew/christianity-tells-us-we-have-free-will-god-has-provided-man-with-a/)

[Stephen McAndrew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-mcandrew/)

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> [...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aiden-wilson-tozer/popular-fundamentalist-theology-has-emphasized-the-utility-of-the/)

[Aiden Wilson Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aiden-wilson-tozer/)

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> [MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose-bierce/miscreant-n-a-person-of-the-highest-degree-of-unworth-etymologically/)

[Ambrose Bierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose-bierce/)

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> [Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dowd/ecology-is-the-new-theology-big-history-is-the-new-genesis-those-who/)

[Michael Dowd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dowd/)

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> [It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eldon-ladd/it-appears-likely-that-there-was-no-normative-pattern-of-church/)

[George Eldon Ladd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eldon-ladd/)

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> [A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-hirsch/a-missional-theology-appl-ies-to-the-whole-of-life-of-every-believer/)

[Alan Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-hirsch/)

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> [“Grace is costly because it calls us through our person to the person of Jesus Christ. And when we follow the person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-root/grace-is-costly-because-it-calls-us-through-our-person-to-the-person/)

[Andrew Root](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-root/)

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> [“The miracle of all miracles is the christological incarnation. It presents to us something that is far beyond the miraculous. That being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-nkomotje/the-miracle-of-all-miracles-is-the-christological-incarnation-it/)

[Ernest Nkomotje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-nkomotje/)

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> [It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horatius-bonar/it-is-not-opinions-that-man-needs-it-is-truth-it-is-not-theology-it/)

[Horatius Bonar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horatius-bonar/)

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> [“You have been adopted. You are God’s beloved sons and daughters. Do you really think God is waiting to attack you on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-a-fiensy/you-have-been-adopted-you-are-god-s-beloved-sons-and-daughters-do-you/)

[David A. Fiensy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-a-fiensy/)

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> [James 2:19- 'You believe there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that- and shudder.' God doesn't just want us to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-chan/james-2-19-you-believe-there-is-one-god-good-even-the-demons-believe/)

[Francis Chan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-chan/)

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> [Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-metaxas/do-not-try-to-make-the-bible-relevant-its-relevance-is-axiomatic-do/)

[Eric Metaxas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-metaxas/)

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> [The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-nightingale/the-true-foundation-of-theology-is-to-ascertain-the-character-of-god/)

[Florence Nightingale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-nightingale/)

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> [A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/a-theologian-who-does-not-love-art-poetry-music-and-nature-can-be/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [Someone in this world will accept you for who you are, all you're going to have to do is accept that you're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/someone-in-this-world-will-accept-you-for-who-you-are-all-you-re/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/the-treatment-of-women-in-muslim-communities-throughout-the-world-is/)

[Sam Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-harris/)

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> [“You are not blamed for your unwilling ignorance, but because you fail to ask about what you do not know… For no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustine-of-hippo/you-are-not-blamed-for-your-unwilling-ignorance-but-because-you-fail/)

[Augustine of Hippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustine-of-hippo/)

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                        "text": "In God's eyes, all creatures have value whether we find them cuddly, affectionate, beautiful or otherwise.  Our own perspective-in a way-is neither here nor there.  Theology, at its best, can help to liberate us from our own anthropocentric limitations.",
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                        "text": "“The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which hath no heat or influence; it doth not warm the affections, or purify the conscience. Judas was a great luminary, he knew God's will, but he was a traitor.”",
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                        "text": "“The presence of the messianic salvation is also seen in Jesus' miracles of healing, for which the Greek word meaning \"to save\" is used. The presence of the Kingdom of God in Jesus meant deliverance from hemorrhage (Mk 5:34), blindness (Mk 10:52), demon possession (Lk 8:36), and even death itself (Mk 5:23). Jesus claimed that these deliverances were evidences of the presence of the messianic salvation (Mt 11:4-5). They were pledges of the life of the eschatological Kingdom that will finally mean immortality for the body. The Kingdom of God is concerned not only with people’s souls but with the salvation of the whole person.”",
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                        "text": "“And those who will carefully study the so-called 'Mosaic code' contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, will see that, though Jahveh's prohibitions of certain forms of immorality are strict and sweeping, his wrath is quite as strongly kindled against infractions of ritual ordinances. Accidental homicide may go unpunished, and reparation may be made for wilful theft. On the other hand, Nadab and Abihu, who 'offered strange fire before Jahveh, which he had not commanded them,' were swiftly devoured by Jahveh's fire; he who sacrificed anywhere except at the allotted place was to be 'cut off from his people'; so was he who ate blood; and the details of the upholstery of the Tabernacle, of the millinery of the priests' vestments, and of the cabinet work of the ark, can plead direct authority from Jahveh, no less than moral commands.”",
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                        "text": "The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all; and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.",
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                        "text": "“The mission of Jesus brought not a new teaching but a new event. It brought to people an actual foretaste of the eschatological salvation. Jesus did not promise the forgiveness of sins; he bestowed it. He did not simple assure people of the future fellowship of the Kingdom; he invited them into fellowship with himself as the bearer of the Kingdom. He did not merely promise them vindication in the day of judgment; he bestowed upon them the status of a present righteousness. He not only taught an eschatological deliverance from physical evil; he went about demonstrating the redeeming power of the Kingdom, delivering people from sickness and even death.”",
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                        "text": "“Moving from teaching university students to living with mentally handicapped people was, for me at least, a step toward the platform where the father embraces his kneeling son. Step from bystander to participant, from judge to repentant sinner, from teacher about love to being loved as the beloved. It is also the place where I have to let go of all I most want to hold on to. It is the place that confronts me with the fact that truly accepting love, forgiveness, and healing is often much harder than giving it. It is the place beyond earning, deserving, and rewarding. It is the place of surrender and complete trust. Each little step toward the center seemed like an impossible demand, a demand requiring me to let go one more time from wanting to be in control, to give up one more time the desire to predict life, to die one more time to the fear of not knowing where it all will lead, and to surrender one more time to a love that knows no limits. And still, I knew that I would never be able to live the great commandment to love without allowing myself to be loved without conditions or prerequisites.”",
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                        "text": "More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't! The final retort to that is: I have a doctorate in Catholic theology that I have earned the hard way - by sitting in university classrooms for twelve years. I know what we believe! You get a doctorate in Catholic theology? What do you know about it? Nothing! You don't know anything about it. You're saying things that are born of misunderstanding or ignorance.",
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                        "text": "“{ From Luther Burbank 's funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death threats. He tried to amiably answer them all, leading to his death } It is impossible to estimate the wealth he has created. It has been generously given to the world. Unlike inventors, in other fields, no patent rights were given him, nor did he seek a monopoly in what he created. Had that been the case, Luther Burbank would have been perhaps the world's richest man. But the world is richer because of him. In this he found joy that no amount of money could give. And so we meet him here today, not in death, but in the only immortal life we positively know--his good deeds, his kindly, simple, life of constructive work and loving service to the whole wide world. These things cannot die. They are cumulative, and the work he has done shall be as nothing to its continuation in the only immortality this brave, unselfish man ever sought, or asked to know . As great as were his contributions to the material wealth of this planet, the ages yet to come, that shall better understand him, will give first place in judging the importance of his work to what he has done for the betterment of human plants and the strength they shall gain, through his courage, to conquer the tares, the thistles and the weeds. Then no more shall we have a mythical God that smells of brimstone and fire; that confuses hate with love; a God that binds up the minds of little children, as other heathen bind up their feet--little children equally helpless to defend their precious right to think and choose and not be chained from the dawn of childhood to the dogmas of the dead. Luther Burbank will rank with the great leaders who have driven heathenish gods back into darkness, forever from this earth. In the orthodox threat of eternal punishment for sin--which he knew was often synonymous with yielding up all liberty and freedom--and in its promise of an immortality, often held out for the sacrifice of all that was dear to life, the right to think, the right to one's mind, the right to choose, he saw nothing but cowardice. He shrank from such ways of thought as a flower from the icy blasts of death. As shown by his work in life, contributing billions of wealth to humanity, with no more return than the maintenance of his own breadline, he was too humble, too unselfish, to be cajoled with dogmatic promises of rewards as a sort of heavenly bribe for righteous conduct here. He knew that the man who fearlessly stands for the right, regardless of the threat of punishment or the promise of reward, was the real man. Rather was he willing to accept eternal sleep, in returning to the elements from whence he came, for in his lexicon change was life. Here he was content to mingle as a part of the whole, as the raindrop from the sea performs its sacred service in watering the land to which it is assigned, that two blades may grow instead of one, and then, its mission ended, goes back to the ocean from whence it came. With such service, with such a life as gardener to the lilies of the field, in his return to the bosoms of infinity, he has not lost himself. There he has found himself, is a part of the cosmic sea of eternal force, eternal energy. And thus he lived and always will live. Thomas Edison , who believes very much as Burbank, once discussed with me immortality. He pointed to the electric light, his invention, saying: 'There lives Tom Edison.' So Luther Burbank lives. He lives forever in the myriad fields of strengthened grain, in the new forms of fruits and flowers, plants, vines, and trees, and above all, the newly watered gardens of the human mind, from whence shall spring human freedom that shall drive out false and brutal gods. The gods are toppling from their thrones. They go before the laughter and the joy of the new childhood of the race, unshackled and unafraid .”",
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                        "text": "...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The \"work\" of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ.",
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