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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.'

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  1. 'I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it …
  2. 'A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.'
  3. 'Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bittern…
  4. 'Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.'
  5. 'Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. '
  6. 'Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. '
  7. 'Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man is his endowment with pers…
  8. 'God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done.'

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