Halford Luccock Quotes

#1. A scientist said, "The very best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a Person.

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#2. The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person ... Our task is ... the sharing of intense faith and experience.

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#3. The Christian message is not an exhortation - "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.

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#4. I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

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#5. We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

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#6. No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

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#7. No one can whistle a symphony.

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#8. There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be. It is the danger of considering our character as something static, rather than as something emerging.

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