““His preaching was incisive, direct and forceful, and he used to say he knew when he had delivered a good sermon by the number of abusive letters he received on Monday. He had no patience with equivocators. “There isn’t any way to protect yourself from the truth, except to like it,” he told me. His forcefulness was kept balanced by a great human gentleness and by the quietness of his deep and unshakable belief. He walked like a man who bore a light inside him, and many who came to see him in serious trouble or bewildered by pain, told afterward that, sitting in front of him and looking into his eyes, their problems seemed solved before they had spoken them.””
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