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“The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.”

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One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.…

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The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the…

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The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of…

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It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

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Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child.…

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Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it. ...

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At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

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If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we…

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This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God. It is far more radical than…

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The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

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We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows…

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The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel.

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