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THE
SPEAKER S BOOK
OF INSPIRATION
THE
SPEAKER'S BOOK
OF INSPIRATION
A Treasury of Contemporary
Religious & Inspirational Thought
Compiled By
C. N E I L STRAIT
Published By
DROKE HOUSE/HALLUX
Publishers of Books
Atlanta, Georgia
THE SPEAKERS BOOK OF INSPIRATION
Copyright© 1972 By C Neil Strait
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in

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FIRST EDITION
Standard Book Number: ISBN 0-8375-6759-9

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TO
INA, DA VID and PHILIP
PREFACE
Just as a "Journey of a thousand miles begins with the. first

step," so a speech, a sermon or a talk, begins with the first thought,
quotation or opening remark that sets the stage and whets the
appetite. Contained in this volume are quotations which are
inspirational "starters" for nearly any kind of speech.
The minister will find sermon ideas here. The educator will find
gems for talks. The civic-minded will find material useful for
c o m m u n i t y g r o u p s . E v e n t h e great issues facing our
society — problems of the city, poverty, race relations — just to
mention a few, are covered in this volume.
A personal word of appreciation to the authors, editors,
publishers, etc., who have granted permission for the material used in
this volume. Without their assistance such a collection of quotes
would have been impossible. A listing of the various authors quoted,
books, magazines, etc., preceeds the context.
If some quotation contained in this book leaps out and grabs
some mind, and then, through the vehicle of communication it in
turn inspires and challenges others, the work will not have been in
vain.
C. Neil Strait
Pastor,
East Liberty Church of the Nazarene,
Akron, Ohio
SUBJECT INDEX
ADVENT (see "SPECIAL DAYS")

AGE 13
APATHY 15
BIBLE 20
BROTHERHOOD (see "RACE RELATIONS")
CHARACTER 22
CHILDREN (see "FAMILY")
CHRIST 24
CHRISTIAN (see "CHRISTIAN LIVING")
CHRISTIAN LIVING (Christ-like; example; influence; maturity, etc.) 26
CHURCH 33
CITIES (blight; slums; urban renewal) 44
COMMUNION (Lord's Supper) 46
CONSCIENCE andCONVICTIONS •. 47
COURAGE 50
CROSS (Cross; Easter/Resurrection; Good Friday) 51
DEA TH 55
DESTINY (see "LIFE")
DISCIPLESHIP (see "CHRISTIAN LIVING")
DIVORCE (see "MARRIAGE")
EASTER (see "CROSS")

ECUMENICISM 57
EDUCATION 58
EPIPHANY (see "ADVENT")
ETHICS (see "MORALS")
EVANGELISM 60
EVIL (see "SIN")
EXAMPLE (see "LIFE")
FAITH 62
FAMIL Y (children; family; father; home; mother; parents) 69
FATHER'S DAY (see "FAMILY")
FEAR 78
FORGIVENESS 79
GOD 80
GOD-IS-DEADMOVEMENT 85
GOOD FRIDAY (see "CROSS")
GOSPEL 88
GRIEF (see "SORROW")
HAPPINESS (peace) 90
HOLY SPIRIT (Holy living; Pentecost; Whitsunday, etc.) 92
HOME (see "FAMILY")
95
HOPE . . ,
INDEPENDENCE SUNDAY (see "SPECIAL DAYS")
INVOLVEMENT (see "APATHY")
JUDGMENT (see "DESTINY")
LAYMEN 97
LEISURE 98
LENT (see "CROSS")
LIFE (challenge; destiny; example-influence; purpose; miscellaneous) 100
LOVE (compassion, hate; miscellaneous) < 110
LOYALTY (see "CHRISTIAN LIVING")
MAN 116
MARRIAGE (and, divorce) 120
MISSIONS (see "EVANGELISM")
MORALS 124
MOTHER'S DAY (see "FAMILY")
NEW YEAR'S (see "SPECIAL DAYS")
OLD AGE (see "AGE")
PEACE (see "HAPPINESS")

PENTECOST (see "HOLY SPIRIT")
POLITICAL EXTREMISM 129
POVERTY 130
PRA YER 133
PREJUDICE (see "FORGIVENESS" and/or "RACE RELATIONS")
RACE RELATIONS (Brotherhood; prejudice; civil rights, etc.) 139
REDEMPTION (see "SALVATION")
REPENTANCE 146
SABBATH (see "WORSHIP")

SAL VATION 147
SER VICE 149
SERVICEMEN (see "WAR")
SEX 155
SHARING (see "STEWARDSHIP")
SIN (evil; good; etc.) 157
SORROW (grief; suffering; etc.) 162
SPECIAL DA YS (Advent; National Holidays; New Year's; Passover) 167
STEWARDSHIP 170
SUFFERING (see "SORROW")
TEMPERANCE 171
TEMPTATION 172
THANKSGIVING 173
URBAN (see "CITEES")

VALUES 175
WAR 179
WORSHIP 181
AGE
Age is less a matter of years than thinking. Enthusiasm and

curiosity are keys to fruitful living at any age. We are always as
young as our impulses. — EUGENE P. BERTIN, Pennsylvania School
Journal.
If age is unpleasant it is partly because we make it so. We shut

the old up and deprive them of all that gives life meaning — work,
romance, variety, study — and then wonder why they are querulous
and troublesome. - MICHAEL DRURY, How To Get Along With
People (Doubleday).
More than 64 per cent of the great achievements in this world

have been accomplished by men who have passed their 60th year.
The decade between 60 and 70 years of age contains 35 per cent of
the world's greatest achievements; between 70 and 80, 23 per cent;
after 80, 8 per cent. Old age can be the most fruitful part of our
lives. - ANDRUS DRIFTINGS, Nuggets.
Old age brings forth the true nature of a man; it shows the real
person he was when young. — ERICH FROMM, Parks and
Recreation.
Old age is after all only the accumulated becoming, the gathered
attainments, and the total of the experiences of the years gone
before. — MILO ARNOLD, This Adventure Called Marriage (Beacon
Hill Press)
One can judge his age by the amount of pain he feels when he
comes in contact with a new idea. - ROBERT W. McINTYRE,
Wesleyan Methodist.
One way to reach old age is to quit feeling responsible for the
entire world. — Banking, Journal of the American Bankers
Association.
Some in old age suffer from the hardening of the arteries, but
more seriously from the hardening of the categories. — E. STANLEY
JONES, Victory Through Surrender (Abingdon Press)
To learn to know one's self, to pursue the avenues of

self-development and fulfillment, is what I call creative aging. — ADA
BARNETT STOUGH, Parks and Recreation.
Biblical References:
Deut. 34:7
Job 32:7-9
Ps. 71:9
Ps. 71:17-18
Ps. 90:10
Eccl. 12:1
Titus 2:2-3
APATHY
The cruelest words of tongue or pen are, "I could not have cared
less." - FULTON J. SHEEN, Portraits in a Darkened Forest (Mere-
dith Press)
A church that concentrates on staying out of the headlines

because it refuses to get involved in the life of the community
deserves no one's respect. — T. CECIL MYERS, Thunder On The
Mountain (Abingdon)
Apathy and numbness of soul are nothing else but creeping

death. - FULTON J. SHEEN, The Quotable Fulton J. Sheen, edited
by FREDERICK GUSHURST (Droke House)
Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm

can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the
imagination by storm, and, second, a definite intelligible plan for
carrying that ideal into practice. - ARNOLD TOYNBEE.
Arnold Toynbee has made clear that the most dangerous period
for a civilization is when it thinks it is safe and no longer needs to
face further challenges. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh Every
Morning (Harper & Row)
Christians are going to have to rise above their preoccupation

with simple personal morality by going deeper within themselves to
see the sinfulness of their social irresponsibility. — THOMAS J.
MULLEN, The Ghetto Of Indifference (Abingdon)
Christ's call is to the heights, to things that are noble and

heroic — humanly speaking, to the impossible. But our human nature
likes to take it easy — to loll in the valley, living by appetite and
impulse. - FROM They Who Are Called Christians, by JESSE H.
BAIRD. THE WESTMINSTER PRESS. Copyright © 1965, W. L.
JENKINS. Used by Permission.
Civilizations decay and disintegrate when their leadership is

content with the status quo, when they identify survival with
success. - J O S E P H S. CLARK, Congress: The Sapless Branch (Har-
per & Row)
Comfort comes as a guest, lingers to become a host and stays to
enslave us. - LESS S. BICKMORE, Vital Speeches of the Day.
Constructive discontent with things as they are is a mainspring

for personal growth and social progress. — WALLACE E. FISHER,
Preaching and Parish Renewal (Abingdon Press)
F l e x i b i l i t y is heresy in a world where conformity

reigns. - CLARENCE A. NELSON, There Was A Man: His
Name: Paul Carlson. Compiled by CARL PHILIP ANDERSON
(Fleming H. Revell)
History shows that when people cease to care enough to fight for
their freedom, their society is on its way to oblivion. When they lose
the ability to take a risk, and the will to accept the challenge to make
their communities safe and free, they cannot long endure. — BILLY
GRAHAM, The Quotable Billy Graham, edited by CORT R. FLINT
(Droke House)
Involvement is the only indulgence that really satis-

fies. - ROBERT H. SCHULLER, Your Future Is Your Friend (Wm.
B. Eerdmans)
I wonder if Christianity today has not become . . . a vast

spectator sport. We happily congratulate the pastor, compare the
qualities of the various evangelists, read the theologians, listen to the
radio broadcasters, rejoice in the victories of the missionaries and still
ninety percent of the work done for God is done by ten percent of
the people of God. — Quotation From Discover Your Destiny by
DAVE BREESE. Copyright 9-18-65 by WORD BOOKS, WACO,
TEXAS.
Just as we must expose ourselves in twentieth-century terms to

the fact that we are sinners in twentieth-century ways before we will
want to change, so we will have to expose ourselves to the real
people of the other America — people who bleed and suffer and die,
partly because of our own indifferer.ee. — THOMAS J. MULLEN,
The Ghetto Of Indifference (Abingdon Press)
Justice dies from the moment it becomes comfort, when it ceases

to be a burning reality and a demand upon one's self. — ALBERT
CAMUS, quoted by GENE LOWALL, Argosy Magazine.
One of the discouraging things about life is the high mortality of
noble dreams: people are satisfied to put into lesser ports; they are
willing to accept second-best as if it were good enough. Or, to use
Christopher Fry's phrase, they "accept the dark as though it were
light enough." This ought never to be our option as a Chris-
tian. - LAWRENCE A. HINSHAW, Pulpit Digest.
One of the great sources of moral and political breakdown in our

day is the reluctance of ordinary people to accept responsi-
bility. - W. T. PURKISER, Herald Of Holiness.
Our age has been vividly described as 'an age of dry eyes, hard
noses, and cold feet.' In many respects this is an apt descrip-
tion - W. T. PURKISER, Herald Of Holiness.
That the church is populated by members who could change

things for the better is self-evident. That they frequently are
close-minded about their responsibilities and unwilling to share in the
cause is also painfully obvious. - THOMAS J. MULLEN, The Ghetto
Of Indifference (Abingdon Press)
The battle is never won by those who are merely interested in

good causes. - GERALD KENNEDY, Pulpit Digest.
The forces of mediocrity and complacency are strong today and

are growing stronger. Too many people are still sitting it out instead
of sweating it out. Too many don't have the guts to stand up straight
and put their energy and talents to the test. Perhaps because they
fear failure or are simply satisfied with low success. But this situation
cannot endure if America is to remain strong and grow
stronger. - GUILDORD DUDLEY, JR., Journal of Insurance
Information.
The greatest prayer a church can pray today is "God let us be

aware!" Aware of the lostness of people, aware of the needs of
children and youth, aware of the sins of a big city, aware of
loneliness, aware of the social needs of men, aware of man's deep
emotional problems. God let us be aware and relevant! — T. CECIL
MYERS, Thunder On The Mountain (Abingdon Press)
The greatest public enemy is not the Mafia or communism — it is

indifference! - BILLY GRAHAM, The Quotable Billy Graham,
edited by CORT R. FLINT (Droke House)
The majority of today's church members refuse to care. In this

refusal, most remaining members and much of their chosen hierarchy
blandly acquiesce. — WILLIAM HULME, Your Pastor's Problems
(Doubleday)
The most prosperous, the best housed, the best fed, the best
read, the most intelligent and the most secure generation in our
history, or all history, is discontent. - LYNDON B. JOHNSON.
The nidus of the malady from which our civilization suffers lies
in the individual soul and is only to be overcome within the
individual soul. - WILHELM ROEPKE, Modern Age, (Summer,
1959)
The worst is to yield to the reluctance to work. — PETER
ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY, quoted by BERNICE HOGAN, Listen for
a Rainbow (Fleming H. Revell)
There have been 25 civilizations before ours and all have been
destroyed — not from without but from within. If our American way
of life vanishes, it will not be because of communism. It will be
because of our own apathy, our own unwillingness to assume the
individual obligations to society. The challenge is ours but — where
do we go from here? - RICHARD G. CAPEN, JR., Congressional
Record-House.
There is no regret like the safe life that dwells in the twilight of
mediocrity. For in spite of its triteness, it is true that it is better to
have loved even when you lose, than to have been afraid to love at
all. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh Every Morning (Harper & Row)
This is a world of opposing values where one must be taking sides
constantly, and it matters what side you take. Liking the good in life
involves disliking the bad, and loving the highest means detesting the
mediocre. - HAROLD E. KOHN, Thoughts Afield (Wm. B.
Eerdmans)
Too often we drift through the present crisis by reminiscing

about a happier day. It is not that the Church does the wrong thing
so much as that the Church so often does nothing. Bad men triumph
because good men do not act. — GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh Every
What we need today is not another philosophy on how to

succeed, but rather one on how to fail creatively. — G. DON
GILMORE, The Freedom To Fail (Fleming H. Revell)
When a majority of people decline to participate responsibly in

society — seeking to escape life's situation tensions — the founda-
tional social institutions (family, church, school, state) shatter. That
is how Rome fell. —WALLACE E. FISHER, Preaching and Parish
Renewal (Abingdon Press)
When apathy has its grip on a man he "believes in nothing, cares

for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys
nothing, loves nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives
for nothing, and only remains alive because there is nothing he would
die for." - ROBERT J. McCRACKEN, What Is Sin? What Is Virtue?
(Harper & Row)
Ps. 142:4
Mt. 16:24-26
Lk. 10:30-37
BIBLE
The Bible is unique in its complexity and its simplicity. It

touches every century, speaks of every subject, and contains advice
and guidance on every problem. Yet all its commands may be
narrowed down to two, and those two may be summarized in one
word: Love. . . . Love enriches the giver. Love warms the one who
receives it. - DONALD H. STRONG, Herald of Holiness.
I believe that the Bible is almost unknown today. It isn't a book

about God, though that's how it's generally considered, but a book
about man. The Bible offers a sublime answer, but unless we know
the question to which it responds, we can hardly understand it. The
Bible is an answer to the question, "What does God require of
man?" - ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL, Think.
The Bible is our text book. Nothing that has happened in our
world has altered the fundamental fact that still in this Holy Book is
all we need to know about God, about ourselves, and about the
meaning and purpose of human life. — BRIAN WESTREP,
Cambridge News (England)
T h e B i b l e is t h e c o n s t i t u t i o n of Christian civili-
zation. - GORDON PALMER, Watchman-Examiner.
The Bible takes the scare out of living and puts purpose, joy and
faith in its place. - DICK VAN DYKE, Guideposts.
The Christian whose norm is Scripture must always have a

particularly uneasy conscience. - A. ROY ECKHARDT, "THE NEW
LOOK IN AMERICAN DIETY," Christian Century, 11-17-54.
There are ten men who will fight for the Bible to one who will
read it. — L. R. AKERS, Eighth Fear and Other Sermons (Abingdon
Press)
Thoughtful men cannot leave the Bible alone. Many who reject
its claim to truth study it more diligently than those who accept it as
God's truth. This strange fascination with what they do not accept as
truth is testimony to the uniqueness of the Bible and to its power to
draw men to itself. — Christianity Today, by Permission.
To the complacent man, satisfied with his particular status quo,
the Bible is an unknown book. To the casual reader, it is a good book
containing interesting tales of long ago. To the philosophical student
it is an ethical ideology with definite moral and spiritual values. To
the professor of literature, it is a classical masterpiece. But to the
wise economist concerned with securing eternal riches, it is a highly
disturbing and arousing textbook. In it he can find no justification
for resting on his oars, nor can he find any reason for compromising
with his hopes. — Megiddo Message.
We should understand one thing: In these extraordinary times,

where man lives in profound tension and pushes revolt to the point
of wanting to remake himself, the Word of the living God can still be
heard. - ROGER MEHL, Images of Man (John Knox Press)
When Lloyd C. Douglas was asked why he wrote his book The
Robe, which is a story woven around the life of Christ, he said he
wrote it because he was never satisfied with the Apostle that skipped
from the birth of Jesus to His death, witn nothing between but a
comma — ". . . born of the Virgin Mary (comma) suffered under
Pontius Pilate." Douglas said he wanted people to know what
happened in the comma. That comma is the most powerful
parenthesis in history. - J . WALLACE HAMILTON, The Thunder of
Bare Feet (Fleming H. Revell)
When one rereads the Bible as a Jew, Protestant, Orthodox or

Roman Catholic, he may read it as a mirror of his preconceptions;
when encouraged to read it in the contexts of other traditions, he is
apt to find something hitherto overlooked. — MARTIN E. MARTY,
The New York Times Book Review.© 1964 by THE NEW YORK
TIMES COMPANY. Reprinted by Permission.
When you start a Bible movement, it means revolution — a quiet

revolution against darkness and crime.—TOYOHIKO KAGAWA,
Behold The Man (Harper & Row)
Biblical References: Ps. 107:19-20 Jn. 5:39

Deut. 6:1-15 Ps. 119:9-16 Gal. 4:30
Josh. 1:8 Ps. 119:105 Eph. 6:17
Ps. 1:1-2 Prov. 6:20-23 II Tim. 3:16
Ps. 19:7-11 Isa. 30:21 I Pet. 1:25
Ps. 78:1 Isa. 55:10-11 II Pet. 1:20-21
CHARACTER
Man is very much like a barrel of apples. The apples that are seen
on the top are his reputation, but the apples down below represent
his character. - FULTON J. SHEEN, Portraits in a Darkened Forest
(Meredith Press)
A civilization which ceases to understand the importance of

character writes its own death knell. - K. MORGAN EDWARDS,
More Than Survival (Abingdon Press)
As far as Christian character is concerned, the church can never

do what parents must do. - HAZEN G. WERNER, The Bible and the
Family (Abingdon Press)
Character includes a capacity to do large, unselfish things, not for

exhibition but because they are right. — Rotagraph.
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the

altar of conformity and popularity. — War Cry.
Character is not made in a crisis — it is only displayed

then. — The Christian Athlete.
Choice is at the heart of making character. — CLIFFORD E.

LARSON, Watchman-Examiner.
Every thing and creature has its own fundamental destiny; each
thing and creature . . . has a destiny and a character that is the
ultimate being and essential life of each . . . . Success in life is to find
these, and to incarnate them, and to set their inward essence free in
outward experience and expression. This is the meaning of life, this is
the joy. And this is the only real freedom. - E. MERRILL ROOT,
American Opinion
I've never felt that football built character. That is done by

parents and church. You give us a boy with character and we'll give
you bacK a man. You give us a character — and we'll give him right
back to you. —JOHN McKAY, The Kiwanis Magazine
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and

complete the character. — Megiddo Message
One of the most hazardous things that any system of education
could do would be to give youth intellectual capacity without
character. When a young man imbibes the knowledge of chemistry,
he has a twofold capacity either to concoct a deadly poison or to
make a healing medicine. Character determines which he shall
do. - LOUIS H. EVANS, Youth Seeks A Master (Fleming H. Revell)
People are like books in that their thoughts and deeds are written
in their lives. It is good for a book to have a good title, but more
important that the contents of the book be good. Likewise, it is good
for a person to make a good appearance, but it is more important to
live a worthy life. — Sunshine Magazine
There is an element of suddenness about what life becomes; like

drops of water falling into a cup, finally one more drop makes it
overflow. - HAZEN G. WERNER, No Saints Suddenly (Abingdon
Press)
There is a sense in which character is primarily decisions. There is

nothing that defines the quality of our lives as do those constant
choices which harden into the habits upon which we build our
future. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh Every Morning (Harper &
Row)
We are developing a generation of money-rich and character-poor

Americans. - J . EDGAR HOOVER,
We have forgotten that man is creating his tomorrow at every

moment by his thoughts and motives today. — HERBERT AGAR,
quoted by HAZEN G. WERNER, No Saints Suddenly (Abingdon
Press)
Whatever it is that holds our interests suggests the quality of our

c h a r a c t e r and to a large measure determines our con-
duct. - HAROLD E. KOHN, Adventures In Insight (Wm. B.
Eerdmans)
Prov. 14:30 Phil. 4:8
Prov. 22:1
Ec. 7:1
Lk. 6:31
CHRIST
Christ's message was revolutionizing; His words simple, yet

profound. And His words provoked either happy acceptance or
violent rejection. Men were never the same after listening to
ffim.-BILLY GRAHAM, The Quotable Billy Graham, edited by
CORT R. FLINT (Droke House)
He comes to us as one unknown, nameless, just as in an ancient

time, by the lakeside, he came to those men who knew him not. He
speaks rhe same word to us: 'Follow me'. He places us at the tasks
which he must fulfill in our time. To those who obey him, wise or
simple, he will reveal himself in the labors, conflicts, and miseries
they will experience in communion with him. As an ineffable
mystery, they shall come inwardly to know who he is. — ALBERT
SCaHWEITZER, Pilgrimage to Humanity (Philosophical Library)
In every age, in every nation and in every culture, the Christian

should expect to find glimpses, and often much more than glimpses,
of the Light which was focused so brilliantly in Jesus of Naza-
reth. - LOUIS CASSELS, What's the Difference? (Doubleday)
Jesus Christ was the first to bring the value of every human soul
to light; and what he did, no one can ever more undo. — HARNACK,
quoted by RITA SNOWDEN, The Time Of Our Lives (Abingdon
Press)
Jesus achieved what He was sent to do because He was not

concerned with the categories of success and failure as understood by
the world. Because He was content to appear to fail in the sight of
men, if had to be the cost of witness to the truth and obedience to
God, His mission gained an effectiveness which became uni-
versal. - DOUGLAS WEBSTER, Yes To Mission (SCM Press)
(Seabury-USA)
Jesus died because the common people just followed their

cheer-leaders. - HUGH MONTEFIORE, Truth To Tell (Collins)
Man's ultimate destiny depends not on whether he can learn new

lessons or make new discoveries and conquests, but on his acceptance
of the lesson taught him close upon two thousand years
ago. — Inscription at the Eastern Entrance of Rockefeller Center,
New York City
When Jesus comes, the shadows depart. — Inscription on the wall

of a castle in Scotland.
When the name of Jesus is still so powerful to heal, we may not

think of him as dead and done for. - NATHANIEL MICKLEM, A
Religion for Agnostics (SCM Press)
Isa. 40:11
Isa. 53:7-12
Mt. 1:23
Mt. 9:36
Mt. 14:14
Mt. 16:16
Mt. 18:11
Mt. 20:34
Jn.3:16
J n . 10
J n . 19:5
Acts 2:36
Rom. 3:24
I Cor. 8:9
Eph. 2:20
Phil. 2:5-11
Col. 3:11
I Tim. 1:15
I Tim. 2:5
Heb.2:9
CHRISTIAN LIVING
An alarming weakness among Christians is that we are producing

Christian activities faster than we are producing Christian experience
and Christian faith. — Church Management
Any man will command respect if he takes a stand and backs it

up with his life. - BOBBY RICHARDSON, The Bobby Richardson
Story (Fleming H. Revell)
Christian discipleship offers us not lighter burdens, not less of

d u t y , b u t more of struggle, and pledges us more of
strength. - ARTHUR J. MOORE, Fight On! Fear Not! (Abingdon
Press)
Christianity does not produce people who behave like Pavlov's

conditioned dogs, Clyde Beatty's dutiful lions, or Marineland's
trained porpoises. Christianity calls men to authentic person-
hood. — WALLACE E. FISHER, Preaching and Parish Renewal
(Abingdon Press)
Christianity does not teach a withdrawal from life, but an

infiltration of it; the Christian is not a policeman for everyone's
conduct, but rather an ambassador of the good news about
Christ. — BILL GLASS, Quotation from Get In The Game by BILL
GLASS. Copyright, 10-15-65 by Word Books, Waco, Texas.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been
found difficult and never sufficiently tried. - G. K. CHESTERTON
Christianity is not an institution; it is a person. — K. MORGAN

EDWARDS, More Than Survival (Abingdon Press)
Christianity is not a natural religion. It looks to realities and

motives and satisfactions whose source is outside the realm of the
taken-fcr-granted. For the Christian, selfishness is sin because it is
suicide. - GEORGE E. SWEAZEY, In Holy Marriage (Harper &
Row)
Christianity is not a voice in the wilderness, but a life in the

world. It is not an idea in the air but feet on the ground, going God's
way. It is not an exotic plant under glass, but a hardy plant to bear
twelve months of fruit in all kinds of weather. — BABCOCK
Christianity must be lived as well as believed. — HARRY EMER-

SON FOSDICK, The Meaning of Being a Christian (Associated Press)
Christianity refuses to be proved first, and practiced after-

ward: Its practice and its proof go hand in hand. — RITA SNOW-
DEN, The Time Of Our Lives (Abingdon Press)
Christians should be distinguishable in the general life of society

in two ways. The first is by their sense of mission, that is their ability
to perform their work in such a way that its relation to God's wider
purpose for mankind as defined by Jesus Christ becomes clear and
significant. The other is by their ministry, that is by their willing,
joyful and self-forgetful service. — From Beyond Religion, by
DANIEL JENKINS, The Westminster Press. Copyright © 1962,
DANIEL JENKINS. Used by Permission.
Concerning nominal Christians: "They concentrate on not doing

anything bad instead of attempting a greater good. They never break
windows but neither do they light candles." - PETER BERTOCCI,
quoted by HAZEN G. WERNER, No Saints Suddenly (Abingdon
Press)
Education may rationalize life, government may nationalize life,

business may mechanize life, but only religion can spiritualize life
and give it meaning. - JOSEPH R. SIZOO, Still We Can Hope
(Abingdon Press)
God calls us not to solitary sainthood but to fellowship in a

company of committed men. — DAVID S. SCHULLER, Emerging
Shapes of the Church (Concordia)
God does not work through a nation collectively. . . . He works

through individual men and women who are faithful in their
work. - WILLIAM SANFORD LaSOR, Great Personalities of the
Bible (Fleming H. Revell)
Humility is a definite mark of self-respect. For it testifies to a
continuing recognition of need. - GORDON PRATT BAKER, In
The School of Christ (Tidings)
I believe that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological

system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. — LESLIE
T. WEATHERHEAD, The Christian Agnostic (Abingdon Press)
In the school of Christian living spiritual growth is a required

course for graduation. It has been treated as though it were a free
elective by the "spiritual drop-outs," but it is required. — Quotation
from Help! I'm A Layman, by KENNETH CHAFIN. Copyright
5-27-66 by Word Books, Waco, Texas.
It does not seem to ever have occurred-to them (early church)

that religion was to be safe, tame and respectable. The life to which
they had consecrated themselves meant doctrine, drill and disci-
pline. - ARTHUR J . MOORE, Immortal Tidings in Mortal Hands
(Abingdon Press)
It is not Christianity that is sick but our so-called 'Christian

civilization' — a culture that is Christian in part but infiltrated with
too many things that are not Christlike. — From They Who Are
Called Christians, by JESSIE H. BAIRD, The Westminster Press.
Copyright 1965, W. L. JENKINS. Used by Permission.
. . . it will only be as the world sees a community living as if God

was there all the time and not just talking about God, that (the
world) will take the Church seriously. — MAX WARREN, Inter-
preting the Cross (SCM Press)
Marxist atheism makes a crushing indictment of Christians. If we

examine its criticism, we can recognize that its most important
argument is the fact that Christianity, during its almost two thousand
years of existence, has failed to do away with poverty, servitude,
wars, and social disorder. Christians have betrayed their mission in
the world. They have allowed their faith to be used to support the
powerful against the weak, to become a weapon against the small, to
contribute to their bondage. They cannot erase these facts from the
history of Christianity. — PETER RIGA, Ramparts
It is not for more words, nor for institutions with their tags and
procedures, nor for movements with their membership lists that
Christianity is concerned, but for life and love and eternal realities
which lie deeper than words. — From They Who Are Called
Christians, by JESSIE H. BAIRD, The Westminster Press. Copyright
© 1965, W. L. JENKINS. Used by Permission.
Obedience, judgment, witness . . . these are the signposts to our

salvation, in all the perplexities and busyness of our life. — STEPHEN
BAYNE, Anglican World
Ordinary men cannot win the brutally pagan life of a modern

city for Christ. We want quiet fanatics, men who will outlive and
outsuffer the worst sufferings and reveal to others a Christian
relationship that is so different and so accepting that it cannot be
resisted. - J O H N HEUSS
Our civilization will not be judged by its material develop-

ments . . . but by its effect on the quality of life. — CHARLES
LINDBERGH, Quote
Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act,
but by many small neglects. - J . GUSTAVE WHITE, Beam
Our religion is our love affair with life, and no man who is not in
love with life has a religion worthy of the name. — The L & N
Magazine
Real Christianity is not pedestrian. Real Christianity is not safe

and secure. The Christian steadfastly refuses to be squeezed into the
world's mold, but is transformed by God's will. It takes daring to be
a Christian, for a Christian is under fire from front and be-
hind. - MICHAEL DAVES, Come With Faith (Abingdon Press)
Religion does not always make life better, but not often does it
fail to make life different. - D. ELTON TRUEBLOOD, The Logic of
Belief (Harper & Row)
The acid test of every religion is what it can do for people in the
hour of overwhelming trouble. — ARTHUR HEDLEY, Watchman-
Examiner
The Christian ideal, put into practice, can work like a ferment.
Once before it turned the world upside down, or as Chesterton
phrased it, turned the world right side up, and it can do it
again. - ROBERT J . McCRACKEN, Questions People Ask (Harper &
Row)
The Christian who cares in a genuine way for the have-nots of the
world is not completely sane by the standards of our success-oriented
culture. . . . He is schizophrenic, living in two worlds at the same
time, demonstrating a kind of insanity which comes from following
another whom we call, in faith, the living Christ. — THOMAS J.
MULLEN, The Ghetto Of Indifference (Abingdon Press)
The events of coming years will not be shaped by the deliberate

acts of statesmen, but by the hidden currents, flowing continually
beneath the surface of our history. In one way and one way only can
we influence these hidden currents, and that is by setting in motion
those forces of instruction and imagination which change
opinion — the assertion of truth, the unveiling of illusion, the
dissipation of hate, the enlargement of men's hearts and minds. — P.
T. FORSYTH, quoted by ARTHUR J. MOORE, Fight On! Fear Not!
(Abingdon Press)
The greatest tasks are accomplished little by little, and all who
have learned to do big things well have begun by learning to do little
things faithfully. - HAROLD E. KOHN.^l Touch of Greatness (Wm.
B. Eerdmans)
The hardest victory is victory over self. — Construction Digest
. . . the real tragedy of our times is not that some are saying 'God
is dead,' but that there is so little evidence among Christians that
God is alive. - DWIGHT E. LODER, quoted by CARL F. H.
HENRY, Christianity Today by Permission.
The spiritually healthy person does not feel less grief, pain, and
discouragement than does his fellow man. He feels more, much more.
He feels his own, plus that of others around him, because he is not
insulated a g a i n s t t h e i r feelings b y h i s o w n self-
centeredness. — HAROLD E. KOHN, Adventures In Insight (Wm. B.
Eerdmans)
The torch of religion may be lit in church, but it does its burning
in the shop and on the street. — Survey Bulletin
There is nothing exclusively Christian in loving those with whom

we feel ourselves at one; heathens and criminals, fascists and
communists all do this, for love is a universal human attribute. Where
Christianity is unique is that it bids men love not only their friends
but their enemies; it tells us "to be in love and charity with all
men." - ARTHUR BRYANT, Illustrated London News
Time after weary time, the church has dishonored its Lord. When
I asked Mr. Ghandi, "What is the greatest handicap that Jesus has in
India?" instantly he replied, "Christianity." - HOWARD THUR-
MAN, The Luminous Darkness (Harper & Row)
Unhappily in our day, the Christian religion is all too often

reduced to a performance to please an external God, while to the
early Christians it was plainly the invasion of their lives by a new
quality of life. - T. CECIL MYERS, Thunder On The Mountain
(Abingdon Press)
We are overworking our emotions in America today in every

realm of life except in the realm of religion. — ARTHUR J. MOORE,
Fight On! Fear Not! (Abingdon Press)
We have had the era of emotion, a tender feeling about the

Christian way; what we need now — and need desperately — is some
tough-minded reasoning about what the Christian really believes and
what such beliefs require in daily witness. - ROBERT G. MIDDLE-
TON, Tensions in Modern Faith (Judson Press)
We have our own orders to attack. . . . We are responsible for that

particular section of the battle-front to which we have been posted
by our eternal Commander. - REINHOD THADDEN, quoted by
WERNER HUHNE, A Man To Be Reckoned With (SCM Press)
What would the world say if we, just those of us who call our-
selves Christians, began to show kindness and treated every man
as neighbor? - T. CECIL MYERS, Thunder On The Mountain
(Abingdon Press)
Deut. 6:5-6
Mt. 5:3-12
Mt. 5:13-16
Mt. 6:1-4
Mt. 6:19-21
Mt. 6:24-34
Mt. 16:24-27
CHURCH
The Church is not to be a settlement but a pilgrimage, not an

estate but an embassy, not a mansion but a mission. — PAUL S.
REES, World Vision Magazine
The Church that Jesus planned was never to be an embattled

enclave, sitting behind its encircling fortifications, facing toward the
past. The Church that Jesus planned is a marching army, facing the
future unafraid of the changes it brings. — W. T. PURKISER, Herald
of Holiness
A Church exists for the double purpose of gathering in and

sending out — Anonymous
A formal, faint-hearted, self-indulgent, dress parade Christianity

will not suffice for the Church in a time of revolution. Our love for
Christ must be able to stand foul odors and loathsome sights, so that
we will go down even to the gates of hell to save a lost
soul'. - ARTHUR J . MOORE, Immortal Tidings in Mortal Hands
(Abingdon Press)
A preacher who found no one at the prayer meeting began to toll

the bell. A dozen folk came running up. One asked, "Who's dead?"
"The church," replied the preacher as he pulled away at the
rope. - AL BRYANT, quoted by RUBY MILLER, The Sunday
School Times
Bad and divided as the church may be, it is the only organization
really working at the job of affecting men's lives in the deep way in
which they must be affected if what we prize is to survive. — D.
ELTON TRUEBLOOD, The Predicament of Modern Man (Harper &
Row)
God is surely preparing His Church for some decisive role in

history. If we can work with divine discontent and candid self-
criticism, He will help us to make His gospel heard yet by a
generation that suspects at present we do not mean what we are
s a y i n g . - J O H N HEUSS,
If it is the task of the Church to colour life, she must be

concerned to minister to and to engage in mission with . . . over-
riding, overarching principalities and powers. We must not only
minister to persons but also influence the influences that shape
people's lives for good or for ill. — E. R. WICKHAM, Encounter with
Modern Society (Seabury)
I know nothing more distressing for the Church than the number
of its members who have not had a new idea about God in thirty
years. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh Every Morning (Harper &
Row)
Insofar as we are the Church, we must thrust Church into the

center of the modern world, and from that position we must be able
to listen to the modern world with exquisite attention, and then
reply to that world in a language which it can understand. — PHILIP
SCHARPER, The Critic
In the Christian Church passive conformity has too often been a

criterion of good churchmanship. A great many emotionally dis-
turbed persons come into the church expecting God to take care of
everything and thus relieve them of their responsibility. But God
nowhere promises to do it all. In attempting to escape reality by
"passing the buck" to God, one can delude himself into thinking that
he can avoid the responsibilities of real life. The church can be a
shelter only for a limited time. Then one of two things must happen.
Either one gets soundly converted, or else he becomes thoroughly
smug, thus adding to the dead wood within the church. —JOHN G.
FINCH, Christianity Today, by Permission
It is not the function of the Christian church to create a new

civilization; it is the church's function to create the creators of a new
civilization. - ANONYMOUS
It is true that the church must speak to the man on the street.
But it must say something to him he cannot hear from the voices of
those who exist only "on the street," and it may need to pick him up
off "the street." - W. T. PURKISER, Herald of Holiness
Many churches do try desperately to be modern and 'to meet the

needs of modern people'. This looks better than a conservative
church that makes the past more important than the present. Yet
renewal is more than keeping up with the times. Renewal means
coming closer to the Christ and therefore closer to the people.
Closeness in itself is no virtue. The value of our presence is
determined by our hope to bring Christ near to the people. — From
These Rebellious Powers by ALFRED van den HEUVEL. Copyright
1965, Friendship Press, New York.
Not for centuries has there been before the church an oppor-
tunity so gracious or a responsibility so terrifying. — ARTHUR J.
MOORE, Immortal Tidings in Mortal Hands (Abingdon Press)
Oddly enough, those who would make the church weak and
useless seem curiously silent about its heroism and sacrifice under the
attack of fascists and communists. Little attention is paid to Albert
Einstein's testimony that when the editors of great papers and the
professors of universities surrender, it was the church that proved to
be the stumbling block over which Hitler fell. — GERALD
KENNEDY, Fresh Every Morning (Harper &: Row)
Perhaps the major task of the Christian Church in the generations
ahead, if there are to be such, will lie in demonstrating that that vast
emptiness (is) a tragic human illusion, that God has been there all the
time. - MAX WARREN, Interpreting the Cross (SCM Press)
Protestant churches in local communities have been guilty of

silence on many of the great issues of society such as economic
injustice and racial discrimination but have spoken up with great
vigor on the safe, traditional, moralistic, and all too negative special
interests such as liquor, gambling, or pornographic litera-
ture. — WILLIAM B. CATE, Ecumenical Scandal on Main Street
(Association Press)
Sometimes it seems that Christianity is no longer correlated with

public issues through the bold pulpit proclamation of God's
commandments and the earnest pursuit of the will of God in modern
life. Instead, it is invoked as a symbolic device serviceable to
propaganda groups, promoting secular objectives — socialism, paci-
fism, legislative proposals, and whatever else the top echelon
advocates. — CARL F. H. HENRY, Christianity Today, by
Permission
Stalin studied for the priesthood! Karl Marx wrote a stimulating,
theologically correct essay "Union with Christ" at seventeen years of
age! But a cold, spiritless, decadent church lost them. — WAYNE
DEHONEY, Challenges to the Cross (Broadman Press)
The Church as a community is always alive, and like living

organisms shows a constant ability to learn, to grow, and adapt to
m e e t n e w d e m a n d s . Rigidity is one of the signs of
death. - MICHAEL WILSON, The Church Is Healing (SCM Press)
The Christian Church has had a sad record in matters of social

justice. She has given some strange endorsements to military policies
and been silent before others. She has refused to be critical of
labor-management disputes. In fact, the most striking thing about the
recent advances in civil rights and the racial struggle is that they came
after the Supreme Court had spoken. The Church has come tagging
along, in the now prevailing wind, trying to add her own message.
The fellowship of Christ's people, who ought to have led, have
followed. The Church which was to be prophetic has been somewhat
pathetic. - CHARLES WARREN BARNES, Pulpit Digest
The Church can hardly expect to be effective in its future

ministry without taking a careful reading of the revolutionary spirit
among student groups both at home and abroad. What the Church
has not recognized is the tremendous communication gap between
itself and the majority of the world's student popula-
tion. - DONALD H. GILL, World Vision Magazine
The Church exists to serve the world . . . the Church exists to

influence the world, to influence human affairs, human institutions.
She exists to colour(sic) the world, to stain it, to subject it to
appropriate critiques of the truth. She exists to orientate the world
to its true goals. — E. R. WICKHAM, Encounter with Modern
Society (Seabury)
. . . the church has got to earn anew the right to be heard; and it
has to do it the way Jesus did it, by deeds, by actual deeds of
compassion and mercy. — LOUIS CASSELS, Christianity Today, by
Permission
The church has suffered from putting too high a premium on
orthodoxy on words and too little emphasis upon superiority in
deeds and character. — Advance
The Church is always on the edge of the abyss. Somebody once

said to a churchman that Christianity was on its last legs, and he
replied that it is always on its last legs. Just so soon as enough people
decide that the free church is no longer worth preserving, we are
finished. We do not offer any economic or social advantage to
people. The Church has to win its life every morning, or it will lose
it. There is precious little comfort in the thought that nineteen
hundred years of Christianity is only one generation away from
annihilation. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh Every Morning (Harper
&Row)
The church is composed of a saving people moving out on a

mission into the world, not a saved people who are retreating into
the security of the four walls of the church building. — WILLIAM B.
CATE, The Ecumenical Scandal on Main Street (Association Press)
The Church is her true self only when she exists for human-
ity. - DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, Letters and papers from Prison
(SCM Press, London and MacMillan Co., N.Y., Revised Translation,
1967,p.188)
The Church is in the business of changing lives, redirecting

energies, recovering what is noble in man. — DAVID PAUL BYRAM,
Christianity Today by Permission
The church is not only where man may meet God but is also
man's last hiding place from God. — KARL BARTH, Quote
The church is set in the world, not as a separate community, but

as a school, in which we can learn something about our job in the
world, and as a hospital, where our health can be restored. There we
get the vitamins of God's word and the medicine of the sacrament to
keep us going on the way. — From These Rebellious Powers by
ALBERT H. van den HEUVEL, Copyright 1965, Friendship Press,
New York.
The Church is the inner company of those who, under the

leadership of Christ, and empowered by Him, insist on living, and if
necessary dying, rather than surrender to the selfish, hateful folly of
a perishing race of men. — B. I. BELL, Church in Disrepute (Harper
&Row)
The church must be relevant and stop answering questions that

no one is asking. — T. CECIL MYERS, Thunder On The Mountain
(Abingdon Press)
The church must come to grips with the evils of our time. It must
come alive" and move out to where men and women are caught in the
strange hostilities of our culture. — HAZEN G. WERNER, No Saints
Suddenly (Abingdon Press)
The Church never gains, it never grows in strength, when it bends

itself to the winds of social custom and becomes an institution that is
more directed by custom than it is devoted to Christ. — CHARLES
N. FOSHEE, Pulpit Digest
The church's future today depends more than ever on whether

she withdraws into the ghetto and leaves the world to its fate, or
whether she has the authority to continue the discussion with the
world outside and to answer the questions which it puts to
her. — From Divorce, the Church and Remarriage, by JAMES C.
EMERSON, JR., The Westminster Press. Copyright © 1961, WAL-
TER L. JENKTNS. Used by Permission.
The church should be a place where those who march with God
can find their point of rallying. - ARTHUR J. MOORE, Fight On!
Fear Not! (Abingdon Press)
The church simply does not have the cutting edge. It has taken
the culture of our time and absorbed it. It's ghastly that the church is
run not to serve the reality of human beings, but to conserve
institutions. . . . Once the church was in the forefront of the fight
against evil, but now the church serves as an ambulance in the rear
picking up casualties. - T. CECIL MYERS, Thunder On The
Mountain (Abingdon Press)
The Church sometimes forgets that at least part of her divine

commission is "to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfort-
a b l e . " - J O H N E. LARGE, The Small Needle of Doctor Large
(Prentice-Hall)
The church's proper and constant claim is that the Christian
religion alone can save the world, but the average American is not
impressed with this claim. The reason is that he simply cannot
imagine the church in his community in any such heroic and
revolutionary role. - JOHN HEUSS
The Church's reaction over the world is not entirely reassuring.

Too often she seems detached from it all, and indeed there is a great
temptation to the Church to present herself to mankind as a place of
refuge and peace, of tradition and authority, the ark in the turbulent
sea and the rock unmoved by the tempest. . . — E. R. WICKHAM,
Encounter with Modern Society (Seabury)
The church that does not speak to the student mind will not
speak to tomorrow. — Quotation from Help,' I'm A Layman by
KENNETH CHAFIN. Copyright 5-27-66 by Word Books, Waco,
Texas.
The Church that lives to itself will die by itself. - ARCHBISHOP

RAMSEY, quoted by CLIFFORD P. MOREHOUSE, A Layman
Looks at the Church (Seabury)
The fact that we are distinct from the world does not mean that
we are entirely separated from it. Nor does it mean that we are
indifferent to it, afraid of it, or contemptuous of it. When the
Church distinguishes itself from humanity, it does so not in order to
oppose it, but to come closer to it. . . . The Church must enter into
dialogue with the world in which it lives. It has something to say, a
message to give, a communication to make. — POPE PAUL VI,
Ecclesiam Suam, quoted in Scarboro Missions
The first parish was a believing fellowship, and it did not worry
much abouts its own self-preservation. It worried about getting God's
will done. Because it believed, it had no fear. — JOHN HEUSS
The most hopeful setting for the Church's approach to her

mission to the world, is where she has the deepest understanding of
the total situation in which she lives — not only theological under-
standing of her own nature and calling, but also sociological
understanding of her own contemporary condition, and also the
deepest theological and sociological understanding of the world in
which she is set. — E. R. WICKHAM, Encounter with Modern
Society (Seabury)
The ordinary day-by-day life of the average successful local

parish makes a mockery out of the world-influencing revolutionary
claims of the Christian church. - J O H N HEUSS
The task of the church is not to make all men brothers, but to be
a brother to all men. - JOHN H. HAYES
The way the church needs to exist is to forget about the church
developing institutions of its own and to lose itself, hidden even, and
dispersed in all the secular structures, and like leaven and like salt, to
bring to these structures the illurnination of the gospel.
But today's church would rather run its own little side show than
to really collaborate with the shapers of history in the main stream
of history. Yet it is through the great social structures of business
and industry, of politics and government, of arts and education, that
the purpose of God is being fulfilled and history is being
s h a p e d - n o t by a little church off to the s i d e . - J I T S U O MORI-
KAWA, National Observer
There is much to be said for the celebration of the secu-

lar: . . . this emphasis upon allowing the creative human enterprises
to be themselves, free from ecclesiastical or traditional religious
controls. . . . I see, however, a tendency to celebrate the secular in
such a way as to allow too,much of what goes on under this name to
remain without Christian criticism.
We must make a special point of maintaining a certain distance as
well as involvement, with the city, culture, the world, the state.
These do not need the Church as an echo. . . . They need the Church
that brings independent judgment and inspiration to the secular
community. —JOHN C. BENNETT, Princeton Seminary Bulletin
There is only one safe move for the church and that is to
advance. As long as the world can see the glow of the church's
camp fires, it will know the church is on the move and that God is
with her. - ARTHUR J. MOORE, Fight On! Fear Not! (Abingdon
Press)
These are not times for churches to concentrate only on a

narrowly personal religion, on the salvation of the individual but not
of society. In the struggle for justice, for human rights, they must
not stand on the sidelines as though they had no responsibility in
such matters. - R O B E R T J. McCRACKEN, What Is Sin? What Is
Virtue? (Harper & Row)
This generation has little time for a church which demands

intellectual assent to this or that dogma and has nothing to say about
poverty, disease, ignorance, unemployment, war, the political scene,
and racial strife. No one quarrels because we give intellectual assent
to a confession of faith which.brings us peace and strength, but what
galls so many is that nothing comes of it. —JOSEPH R. SIZOO, Still
We Can Hope (Abingdon Press)
To go forth and speak to our people in the language of their

sufferings and struggles, and to bring to them God's message, which
is the most important thing of all. - RE1NOLD THADDEN, quoted
by WERNER HUHNE, A Man To Be Reckoned With (SCM Press)
We are in need constantly of something to help us know the

worst and believe in the best. That, my brethren, is the
church. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh Every Morning (Harper &
Row)
We believe the task ahead of us is never as great as the Power

behind us. — sign on a church bulletin board
We cannot build a wholesome spiritual life on negations.

Professor John Erskine of Columbia University used to say to his
classes, and undoubtedly provoked a chuckle each time he said
it: "Most people have some sort of religion — at least they know
what church they are staying away from." — ILION T. JONES,
Pulpit Digest
We don't want men who come to church because the golf course
is closed, but men who prefer God to g o l f . - J O Y DAVIDMAN,
quoted by A. MORGAN DERHAM, The Sunday School Times
We have a well developed doctrine of grace for the failure. When

an individual falls on his face and makes a mess of his life we can
speak of forgiveness and beginning again. But what does the church
have to say to the people who are self-disciplined, well trained,
dedicated, hard working people. . . . The church seems to be better
equipped by background and practice to help people to whom things
have happened than to help people who are making things
happen. — Quotation from Help! I'm A Layman by KENNETH
CHAFIN, Copyright 5-27-66, by Word Books, Waco, Texas.
. . . we want the church to be what we need it to be. We want

God cut down to our own pattern and size. It may be that our
church is too small for God, and that we'll turn out to be a religious,
but godless club. — REUEL HOWE, Herein Is Love (Judson Press)
What does it mean for the church to be the church? . . . First, the
church must learn again to be the pilgrim church, to come out from
illusory security afforded by establishments of every kind, to launch
itself again on the great highways of the world, believing that God
has new words to say today and new tasks to be accomplished.
Second, the church must learn to realize afresh its own priestly
nature as the church which is there not for itself but for the world,
not so much for its members as for those who are not yet its
members. — STEPHEN NEILL, Interpretation
Whatever of good or bad can be said about the church of Christ,

it is historically true that it has always had some people who have
understood and obeyed the voice of their Lord. — CLARENCE A.
NELSON, There Was A Man. His Name: Paul Carlson, compiled by
CARL PHILIP ANDERSON (Fleming H. Revell)
What the church needs is not more machinery or better

organizations or novel methods, but men whom God can
use. - BILLY GRAHAM, The Quotable Billy Graham, edited by
When racial discrimination penetrates the Church it becomes

more than a crime against humanity, it is an act of defiance against
God Himself. - SAMEUL H. MOFFETT, Eternity
When the Christian church is told to stay out of politics and

government, and to stick to prayers, Christ is being told, in effect, to
go back to the tomb and play dead. - PAUL CHIDWICK, quoted in
The Free Methodist
. . . when the world is at its worst, it needs the Church to be at its

best. - RALPH L. MURRAY, Pulpit Digest
Where there is conflict, the church must be present, reaching out
across the conflict, bringing the nature of its fellowship into play as a
means for shedding light. - COLIN WILLIAMS, For The World
(National Council of Churches)
With all her buildings and budgets is (the church) doing anything
which challenges busy good people, or stops busy bad
people? - RALPH SOCKMAN, quoted by RITA SNOWDEN, The
Time Of Our Lives (Abingdon Press)
Mt. 16:18
Acts 20:28
I Cor. 3:11
Eph. 1:22
Eph. 5:25-27
I Tim. 5:3
CITIES
(Blight; Slums; Urban Renewal)
We have squandered the natural resources of God's good earth,

and even more tragically, we have wasted the precious resources of
the human mind and spirit in civic strife, wars, and revolu-
tions. - CHARLES L. COPENHAVER, Pulpit Digest
Americans are mystified that their great cities, until recently the
repository of wealth, culture, education and refinement, have in this
generation become centers of crime, poverty, disease, unemploy-
ment, ignorance and revolt. . . . The core city is economically
controlled by absentee landlords, is socially disintegrated and
politically susceptible to corruption and incompetence. The cities are
desperately sick. Perhaps our biggest cities will never again be
satisfactory places for human habitation; they may ultimately
become areas for work and play. In the meantime for millions of
city-dwelling Americans, education provides the only hope for the
future. — ARTHUR F. COREY, California Teachers Association
Journal
Emerson once observed that for his own well-being, the air was
"a cordial of infinite virtue." It should still be that kind of precious
elixir in our individual lives. But now, going from one mortuous
American city to another, I find when I look in the cup — down the
long vistas of vaguely luminous, touched-up brown atmo-
sphere — that what I am being handed is the subtly distilled
municipal hemlock. — BROCK B ROWER, Reprinted with Permission
from Holiday, 9-66
Is there any reason we should not be able to find in our urban

centers islands of peace and quiet, walkways, pools, and green trees
instead of frustrated and embittered people, smog, roaring buses,
taxicab horns, trash cans, and plundered park land? We are no longer
in a mood simply to endure the problems cities present. Now perhaps
for the first time people in general are becoming restless and
impatient with governments — city, state, and Federal — which delay
in facing up to this gigantic job and may be expected to demand
increasingly that something be done. — NATHAN M. PUSEY, in a
speech to American Institute of Architects
My generation will be remembered for what it has spoiled, rather

than for what it has saved. We have too long sung of Americaa the
beautiful but done too little to keep it beautiful. - STEWART L.
UDALL
We have plundered the forests, dissipated the soil, polluted

streams, robbing future generations of their inheritance and birth-
right. — J. O. MATLICK, American Forests
COMMUNION
Holy C o m m u n i o n . . . is the medicine which enables the en-

feebled soul to look steadily at the divine light, to breathe deeply of
the unfamiliar air. — From Window In The Wall, by RONALD
KNOX. Copyright 1956, Sheed and Ward, Inc., New York.
It is the assertion of the "beyond" in the midst of our life, the

holy in the common. The Holy Communion is the point at which the
common, the communal, becomes the carrier of the uncondi-
tional. - From Honest To God, by JOHN A. T. ROBINSON,
Published in the U.S.A. by The Westminster Press, 1963. © SCM
Press Limited, 1963. Used by Permission.
The Eucharist is a personal encounter. It is the place where God

and man meet — within the life of the Church. — OLIVE WYON,
The Altar Fire (SCM Press, London. Distributed in the U.S.A. by
Allenson's, Naperville, 111.)
The Lord's Supper is first and foremost a means of memory. It is

the memorial of Jesus. It is meant to act as a stabbing awake of the
memory which has become forgetful or lethargic. The human mind
forgets; time, as the Greeks said, wipes all things out, as if the mind
were a slate and time an erasing sponge; even the most poignant
event loses its poignancy as the years go on. — WILLIAM BAR-
CLAY, The Mind of Jesus (Harper & Row) (Published as Cricified
And Crowned (SCM Press)
The supreme question is not what we make of the Eucharist but

what the Eucharist is making of us. - ARTHUR MICHAEL RAM-
SEY, The Hundredth Archbishop of Cantebury, by JAMES B.
SIMPSON (Harper & Row)
Mt. 26:26-30
Mk. 14:22-25
Lk. 22:7-20
I Cor. 11:23-29
CONSCIENCE AND CONVICTIONS
N o t h i n g is a better tranquilizer than a clear con-

science. — Banking, Journal of The American Bankers Association
The great wall of China was breached three times in the first
generation after it was built, not by an enemy storming the ramparts,
but by an enemy bribing the gatekeeper. The gatekeeper of our lives
is conscience. The plumb line is the demands of our faith.
Compromise them, and the rest will be compromised in due
time. - RALPH L. MURRAY, The Other Dimension (Broadman
Press)
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it;

but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. — MADAME
De STAEL, Quote
While a jammed horn is recognized as abnormal, a jammed

conscience is often regarded as the voice of God. — HARRY
EMERSON FOSDICK, On Being A Real Person (Harper & Row)
A scrupulous conscience can be one of the worst kinds of

emotional sickness. - GEORGE C. ANDERSON, from Man's Right
to Be Human. Published by William Morrow and Company.
Copyright © 1959 by GEORGE CHRISTIAN ANDERSON. Re-
printed by Permission of Brandt and Brandt.
A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God. — Laugh Magazine

(England)
Conscience does not get its guidance from a Gallup

poll. - GEORGE E. SWEAZEY, In Holy Marriage (Harper & Row)
If the conscience of the average American were Christian,

intelligently Christian, it would not matter too much who was in
Washington. - ARTHUR J . MOORE, Fight On! Fear Not! (Abing-
don Press)
A man's best friend is his convictions that stand the test of time
and circumstances. — Rosicrucian Digest
I am tired of hearing about public men with "the courage of their

convictions;" Nero and Caligula and Attila and Hitler had the
courage of their convictions — but not one had the courage to
examine his convictions, or to change them, which is the true test of
character. - SYDNEY J. HARRIS, Publisher's-Hall Syndicate
In the past day the question was, how can we have tolerance
when we must live up to our convictions? Today the question is, how
can we have convictions when we must be true to our toler-
ance? - HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK, quoted by HAZEN G.
WERNER, The Bible and the Family (Abingdon Press)
People who go through life with granite-like convictions on every

subject under the sun lead a cheerless existence. They miss all the fun
of exploring, all the challenge of debating, and all the thrill of finding
something new. — Royal Bank of Canada Monthly Letter
The greatest proof of Christianity is not how far a man can

logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he
will stake his life on what he believes. - BERNARD EDINGER,
Moody Monthly
The man who is afraid of the expression of a view that is adverse

to his own can't have a great deal of confidence in the soundness of
his own position. It is well to get rid of all positions that you do not
feel you can stand up to on the rack, like a man, and defend. A man
ceases to make an indentation in a hoary old wrong the moment he
begins to give it light taps or ceases to hammer at all. — W. D.
HOARD, Hoard's Dairyman
The real trouble with the church is that we have so many good
people with great convictions about little things. — HENRY KNOW
SHERRILL, quoted by RITA SNOWDEN, The Time Of Our Lives
(Abingdon Press)
There is a gap between the convictions in our minds and their

grip upon our lives. Faith and practice fail to mesh. — HAZEN G.
One person can still make a difference in the world today. But
there is always that persistent spirit of defeat to combat. We need
steadfastly to refuse to be intimidated by numbers. We too often live
by consensus rather than by conviction. — ERNEST CAMPBELL,
The Christian Athlete
Acts 23:1
Acts 24:16
Rom. 9:1
Rom. 13:5
II Cor. 5:11
Heb. 10:22
Heb.13:18
I Pet. 3:16
COURAGE
Courage: Fear that has said its prayers. — ANONYMOUS
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because

it is the quality which guarantees all the others. — WINSTON
CHURCHILL
In Germany, the Nazis came for the Communists and I didn't

speak up because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the
Jews and I did not speak up because I was not a Jew. Then they
came for the Trade Unionists and I did not speak up because I was
not a Trade Unionist. They they came for the Catholics and I was a
Protestant so I did not speak up. Then they came for ME. By that
time there was no one to speak for anyone. — MARTIN
NIEMOLLER
Let us consult our courage — and not our fears The

integrity of the pledged word of the U S is the principal pillar of
peace throughout the world. — DEAN RUSK
When you are so devoted to doing what is right that you press
straight on to that and disregard what men are saying about you,
there is the triumph of moral courage. — Megiddo Message
Deut. 31:6
Josh. 1:6-7
Josh.1:9
Josh. 10:25
Ps. 27:14
Ps. 31:24
Acts 28:15
CROSS
A church near Broadway printing a plain cross on a white

background and underneath inscribed the title of a clever, but
t w i s t e d a n d ephemeral, play then having its Broadway
"run" - Design for Living. - GEORGE A. BUTTRICK, Faith and
Education (Abingdon Press)
All my life I searched for the pot of gold at the foot of the
rainbow; now I've found it at the foot of the Cross. — DALE EVANS
ROGERS, My Spiritual Diary (Fleming H. Revell)
God calls the wayward and the lost not by a candle but by a
cross. - S. BARTON BABBAGE, The Light of the Cross © by
Zondervan. Used by Permission.
He joins us in our situation, in our flood of ignorance and

trouble. - CARLYLE MARNEY, He Became Like Us (Abingdon
Press)
His cross became our bridge to return unto God. — IVAN

ANSON BEALS, Communion With Christ (© Beacon Hill)
I simply argue that the Cross be raised again at the center of the
market place as well as on the steeple of the Church. I am recovering
the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two
candles, but on a Cross between two thieves; on the town garbage
heap; at a crossroad so cosmopolitan that they had to write His title
in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek (or shall we say in English, in
Bantu, and in Africaans?); at the kind of place where cynics talk
smut, and thieves curse, and soldiers gamble. Because that is where
He died. And that is what He died about. - GEORGE F. MacLEOD,
Quoted by SAMUEL McCREA CALVERT, Pulpit Digest
It is set against the sky line of our raucous, anonymous cities. In

our cemeteries it is a talisman against death. It quickens the world's
finest art and music. Through it men have known that the bleakest
tragedy may be the most piercing and healing light. — GEORGE A.
BUTTRICK, Sermons Preached' in a University Church (Abingdon
Press)
Out of history you'll find but one world conqueror who came
with clean hands — and those hands the soldiers pierced with iron
spikes when they nailed the Nazarene to the cross. — IRVIN S.
COBB, The Speaker's Special Occasion Book (Droke House)
Sacrifice to Jesus of Nazareth was creative and active. This is seen

clearly in the Cross; or rather it should be. Many people only see the
Cross as something that men did to Jesus. To turn to the Gospels is
to see that this is only superficially true. In a far deeper sense the
Cross is something Jesus did. Far from being jerked about like a
puppet on strings pulled by evil men, Jesus is all the time forcing the
issue, making the pace. — KENNETH SLACK, Is Sacrifice Out-
moded? (SCM Press)
The Cross does not so much reveal God's mind, that is, His
infinite intellect . . . as it reveals His heart. It is God himself getting
through to our hearts, tracking us down in our sins with love's
relentlessness, forgiving those sins, shattering the old self-
centeredness of us, and putting God at the center of a new life and a
new man! - PAUL S. REES, The Hidings of God (Beacon Hill)
T h e c r o s s is God's way of uniting suffering with

love. - GEORGIA HARKNESS, The Modern Rival of Christian
Faith (Abingdon Press)
The Cross of Christ does not make God love us; it is the outcome
and measure of His love for us. - ANDREW MURRAY, With Christ
in the School of Prayer (Spire Books)
The cross represents the struggle between good and evil in the
world. It stands as a constant reminder that righteousness won the
war with evil. - ROBERT OZEMENT, Happy Is the Man . . .
(Fleming H. Revell)
The Cross shows the way where no one is shut out, for the arms
marked by the wounds of love bind men to God and to one
another. - HOWARD WILLIAMS, Down To Earth (SCM Press)
The only shadow that the Cross casts over history is one of
shelter and asylum. — AMOS N. WILDER, Theology and Modern
Literature (Harvard University Press)
The world is not done with the cross, but it is done without
it. — Western Recorder
Those who stand by the cross are those who change the course of
history. - BILLY GRAHAM, The Quotable Billy Graham, edited by
To walk always in the way of the Cross remains for the best of
men an aspiration rather than an achievement. — GEORGIA HARK-
NESS, The Modern Rival Of Christian Faith (Abingdon Press)
Easter and Resurrection —

Christ's resurrection, being the decisive event in all history,
nothing that can ever happen will equal it in importance. — JEAN
DANIELOU, The Lord of History (Regnery)
Easter is God's way of looking at Good Friday. — JOHN M.

KRUMM, quoted by RITA SNOWDEN, The Time Of Our Lives
(Abingdon Press)
Easter is not just imagination. It is more than fantasy. It is God's

word of life to men who sin, who experience sorrow and defeat. It is
that gift of spiritual renewal and abundance which grants the
strength to say with trembling lips, "Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: . . . and I will dwell
in the house of the Lord for ever." - EMERSON S. COLAW, The
Way of the Master (Abingdon Press)
Easter means that God has already taken the measure of evil at
its very worst; that He has met the challenge at that crucial point;
and that He routed the forces of darkness and thus settled the
ultimate issue for those who say "Yes" to Him! - J O H N E. LARGE,
The Small Needle of Doctor Large (Prentice-Hall)
If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put

truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail it to a cross,
wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will
rise! —Excerpt Used with Permission from "You Can't Hold Back
the Dawn" CLARENCE W. HALL. The Reader's Digest, April, 1957
Immortality lies not in a stone monument, but in a

heart. - RABBI MYRON BERMAN, The Quotable American
Rabbis, edited by SAMUEL M. SILVER (Droke House)
One item about the resurrection of Jesus has sometimes been

overlooked: he showed himself after death only to those who loved
him. — GEORGE A. BUTTRICK, Sermons Preached in a University
Church (Abingdon Press)
The Easter message tells us that our enemies, sin, the curse and
death, are beaten. Ultimately they can no longer start mischief. They
still behave as though the game were not decided, the battle not
fought; we must still reckon with them, but fundamentally we must
cease to fear them any more. — KARL BARTH, Dogmatics In
Outline (Harper & Row)
The resurrection announces the fact that all things are possible
with God. It proclaims that no defeat in the cause of truth and
justice is final. It urges men to die rather than to accept the reality of
unreal walls. - VINCENT HARDING, Must Walls Divine? (Friend-
ship Press)
Good Friday —
Good Friday — the blackest hour of Christendom. Its very name
seems an anomaly, a mocking caricature. Only the student of
language knows that here "good" means "holy" because originally it
was "God." Only the serious student of life knows that it is really
"God's Friday." - ROBERT E. KEIGHTON, Lamps for the Journey
(Abingdon Press)
Cross —
Is. 53:7-12 Jn. 18 Jn. 20
Mt. 10:38 Jn. 19 I Cor. 15
Mt. 16:24 Gal. 6:14 IThess. 4:14
Mt. 26 Phil. 2:8
Mt. 27 Col. 1:20
Mk. 8:34 Heb. 12:2
Mk. 14
Mk. 15 Easter and Resurrection —
Lk. 9:23 Mt. 28
Lk. 14:27 Mk. 16
Lk. 22 Lk. 24
Lk. 23 Jn. 5:28-29
DEATH
At some time or other every mortal must intellectually look

death in the face and decide what is to be his attitude towards this all
too familiar stranger. — CORLISS LAMONT, The Illusion of Immor-
tality (Frederick Ungar Pub. Co)
Death can give us a new perspective on life. It confronts us with

our mortality and the transiency of all our earthly securities. Things
near and far come into clearer focus, and life's relative values are
rearranged. Without God, grief leads to despair or stoicism; with
God, it leads us to new hope and new life. — PAUL P. HAGEN,
Pulpit Digest
Death is life's greatest experiment, life's greatest journey. Our

great scientists, our great world travelers know less of this great
experiment — this great journey — than even the least talented of
those who have already embarked into the great unknown. We who
see the beauty of the flaming sunset do not dread the night. There
will be the splendor of a million stars! - WALTER A. HEIBY, Live
Your Life (Harper & Row)
Everything science has taught me — and continues to teach

me — strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual
existence after death. - WERNHER VON BRAUN. Reprinted from
This Week Magazine. Copyright 1960 by The United Newspaper
Corporation.
Hitherto man had to live with the idea of his death as an

individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea
of its death as a species. - ARTHUR KOESTLER, New York Times
Magazine. © 1960 by The New York Time Company. Reprinted by
Permission.
I often feel that death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for
it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so
precious. - RABBI JOSHUA LIEBMAN, The Quotable American
Rabbis, edited by SAMUEL M. SILVER (Drake House)
On this earth we have merely a note; the melody is be-

yond. - FULTON J. SHEEN, The Quotable Fulton J. Sheen, edited
by FREDERICK GUSHURST (Drake House)
The American attitude toward death is often naive and super-
ficial. It reflects a shallowness which is to be found also in the
American view of life. Failing to find any deep meaning of life
beyond sensate values, the modern American has shielded himself
from discovery of any profound understanding of death. He has
obviated such discovery by totally divorcing life from death, focusing
his total energy and resources on living. — PAUL E. IRION, The
Funeral: Vestige or Value (Abingdon Press)
This is a death-denying age. Death is so disturbing a prospect that

we push it down out of sight for as long as we can. Man, the one
creature that knows he must die, is trying desperately to forget it.
That is why people are so poorly equipped to handle death. — MAL-
COLM NYGREN, Christianity Today, By Permission.
To be really proficient in the art of living, we must know and

understand something about dying. — T. CECIL MYERS, When
Crisis Comes (Abingdon Press)
Ps. 23:4
Ps. 48:14
Isa. 25:8
Rom. 6:20-21
Rom. 6:23
Rom. 7:24
Rom. 8:6
I Cor. 15:26
I Cor. 15:54-55
Heb.9:27
Rev. 14:13
ECUMENICISM
(see "Church")
Before there can be interfaith, there must be an inner

faith. - RABBI MAURICE N. EISENDRATH, The Quotable Ameri-
can Rabbis, edited by SAMUEL M. SILVER (Droke House)
If it (the ecumenical movement) is to be anything more than

another chapter in church history, it must eventually find its way
into the heart and soul and mind of each Christian in every church.
We must be members of one another. - WALTER S. KILPATRICK,
"The Ecumenical Gap" Christian Century, 3-9-66.
The events at the Vatican Council have stirred the hearts of all
people, whether they are Catholic or n o t . . . In a sense the Church
collectively admitted its past imperfections. The Vatican Council
demonstrated both its humility and its courage in a manner worthy
of imitation by all of us. If you were asked what is the hardest task
in the world you might think of some muscular feat, some acrobatic
challenge, some chore to be done on the battlefield or the playing
field. Actually however, there is nothing which we find more arduous
than saying: "I was wrong." - RABBI SAMUEL M. SILVER
We may not be able to meet in the same pew — would to God we

did — but we can meet on our knees. — FULTON J. SHEEN, The
Quotable Fulton J. Sheen, edited by FREDERICK GUSHURST
(Droke House)
Jn. 17:20-22
Eph. 4:4-6
EDUCATION
Education develops human resources. Human resources, in turn,

make a nation whatever it is to be. - TERRY SANFORD, But What
About the People (Harper & Row)
Education is a weapon, the effect of which depends upon the one

who holds it in his hands, and the one who is struck by it. — H. G.
WELLS, quoted by MICHAEL S. PAP, Ohio Schools
If formal higher education is to be meaningful to a man, it must

have given him, somehow, somewhere a sense of values and the
courage with which to defend them. Such a sense of values derives
from an ability to discriminate not only between right and wrong,
but also between that which is cheap and shoddy and that which has
integrity and beauty. — CRAYSON KIRK, The Rotarian Magazine
If you can imagine a person with a head the size of a washtub

and a body the size of a boxcar, but with a soul the size of a navy
bean, you get the picture of the person whose education neglects the
religious dimension! . . . No man is fully educated who has not
l e a r n e d of Christ. — BEN M. ELROD, Arkansas Baptist
Newsmagazine
Only when thinking becomes quite humble can it set its feet
upon the way that leads to knowledge. - ALBERT SCHWEITZER,
Reverence for Life (Philosophical Library)
Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the

g r a d u a t i n g p o i n t , character is the diploma God gives
man. - NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS, Supervision
The education of the mind is important enough, but when the

heart is left a jungle of primitive emotions, more education means
more danger and a graver threat to the common life. — GERALD
KENNEDY, Fresh Every Morning (Harper & Row)
The modern intellectual with all he knows about science and

politics and current affairs is inclined to be very conscious of
intellectual superiority. He has to be reminded that it is not enough
to be familiar with facts; it is necessary to perceive their meaning, to
be able to handle them and turn them to good use, which is where
our generation . . . has so calamitously failed. — ROBERT
McCRACKEN, What Is Sin? What Is Virtue? (Harper 8c Row)
Biblical Reference:
II Tim. 2:15
EVANGELISM
I am obliged to bear witness because I hold, as it were, a particle

of light, and to keep it to myself would be equivalent to
extinguishing it. - GABRIEL MARCEL, quoted by D. ELTON
TRUEBLOOD, The Company Of The Committed (Harper & Row)
If this whole question of missions is to hold the affections of the

Church in the future, we must be sure that we are about a business
that commends itself to the mind as well, for what does not hold the
mind will soon not hold the heart. Besides, let it be noted that if
Christianity isn't worth exporting, it isn't worth keeping. If we
cannot share it, we cannot keep it. — E. STANLEY JONES, Christ of
the Indian Road (Abingdon Press)
May the Holy Spirit teach us that the world is on our back as the
Cross was on the back of Christ. Christ did not die for our parish or
our dioceses. He died for ALL mankind. - FULTON J. SHEEN, The
(Droke House)
Nothing but the surging tides of revival could cleanse the frontier
of human corruption. — W. T. PURKISER, Herald of Holiness
The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad
people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest
ones to win for God are the self-righteous people. — CHARLES L.
ALLEN, When The Heart Is Hungry (Fleming H. Revell)
The most significant factor on the side of saving this world of

ours is not a better philosophy, but committed people, who are
pouring themselves out in the full knowledge that such a course is
the only way in which the life that is life can be truly ob-
tained. - CHARLES WARREN BARNES, Pulpit Digest
While I believe that Christian evangelism must seek first the

conversion of the individual I also believe it cannot stop there. Where
too many so-called liberals are in danger of "throwing the baby out
with the bath water" today, it is just as true that too many so-called
conservatives have gone to dry-as-dust seed, with nothing but a
Pharisaic crust that pretends to be spiritual. — REUBEN H.
MULLER, President of the National Council of Churches
Isa. 40:1-3
Isa. 58:1
Jonah 1:2
Mt. 28:19-20
Lk. 24:48
J n . 4:35-38
J n . 15:27
J n . 21:15-17
Acts 18:9-10
Acts 20:28
Acts 22:15
Acts 26:16-18
Rom. 1:14-16
II Cor. 5:14
II Cor. 5:18-20
Eph. 3:8-10
Eph. 4:11-12
I Tim. 2:7
II Tim. 4:1-2
II Tim. 4:5
FAITH
And this I do believe above all, especially in times of greater

discouragement, that I must BELIEVE — that I must believe in my
fellow men — that I must believe in myself — that I must believe in
God - if life is to have any meaning. - MARGARET CHASE SMITH
Belief in God means believing . . . that the ideals . . . we cherish

are real, that justice, peace, brotherhood, compassion and
honesty . . . actually emerge out of the very structure of the
universe. — IRA EISENSTEIN, Judaism Under Freedom Qewish
Reconstructionist Press)
Belief is easy in June, with summer all around you. In fact, doubt
is difficult in a green and hospitable world. The test comes in
December, when you have to believe that Onsetting winter will pass.
You have to muster the deep-down belief that hope is not foolish
and faith is not futile. You have to believe in your own be-
lieving. — Copyright © 1966 By Hal Borland
Belief means that the truth has made a conquest in per-

sonality. - LESLIE WEATHERHEAD, This Is The Victory (Abing-
don Press)
Believing is fundamentally the giving of ourselves to something in

order to discover the truth of it. There are many things that do not
reveal their reality to us until we give ourselves to them — appre-
ciation of music, mastery of a language, the experience of love. With
faith it is the same. It begins as an experiment and becomes an
experience. - ROBERT J. McCRACKEN, What Is Sin? What Is
Virtue? (Harper & Row)
Christian faith does not smooth out the difficulties of mental life
but it makes them bearable and provides a means whereby men can
establish enough order and law over the chaos of thinking and feeling
to make significant living possible. — R.E.C. BROWNE, The Ministry
of the Word (SCM Press)
Even atheist doctors honestly recognize, ES a result of long

experience, that religious faith is the most powerful means of
restoring serenity and confidence of a troubled mind. They some-
times send a patient to a Christian colleague. — PAUL TOURNIER,
The Person Reborn (Harper & Row)
Faith does not spring out of nothing. It comes with the discovery
of the holy dimension of our existence. — ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL,
Man Is not Alone (Harper & Row)
Faith is a daily necessity whether one is getting married, taking a

job, struggling with an illness, or overcoming a handicap. And faith in
God is the cornerstone of all other faiths. As one psychiatrist says,
"When I learn a patient has no faith in God, I dismiss the case. There
is nothing to build o n . " - ROBERT J. HASTINGS, Arkansas Baptist
Newsmagazine
. . . faith in God is the willingness to act on the conviction that

there are goalposts in the game of life; that is, that there is a moral
order in our human existence that when accepted and obeyed, gives
meaning and direction to our living. — LANCE WEBB, On the Edge
of the Absurd (Abingdon Press)
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the

evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of conse-
quences. — Sunshine Magazine
Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can

see. - WILLIAM NEWTON CLARK, Guideposts
Faith is the force of life. - T O L S T O Y
Faith is the heart of the mind. - ANONYMOUS
Faith is the hinge that holds the believer to a personal

relationship with God. — L. NELSON BELL, Christianity Today, By
Permission
Faith is the willingness to trust the truth. — Arkansas Methodist
. . . faith is too often a mere hot-house plant that has never faced
the light of day . . . doubt is the opportunity for faith to find
relevance and maturity. - VICTOR C. HAYES, Pulpit Digest
Faith makes the uplook good, the outlook bright, the inlook
favorable, and the future glorious. - V. RAYMOND EDMAN,
Moody Monthly
"Have I the right to keep my faith," said a s tudent inquirer, "at
the price of my intellectual integrity." The answer would have to be
that the "faith" which is kept at such a pr:.ce is no faith at
all. - ALEXANDER MILLER, The Renewal of Man (Doubleday)
(Published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz, Ltd.)
He who is small in faith will never be great in anything but

failure. - ANONYMOUS
If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a :ragedy to him who

feels, it is a victory to him who believes. — ANONYMOUS
If our faith cannot stand up under the scru iny of truth, then,
maybe it isn't worth the effort we are making to keep it
alive. - JACK B. NORTH, Pulpit Digest
It is not faith and works; it is not faith or works; it is faith that

works. - ANONYMOUS
Lack of faith can cause people to falter, and nations to crumble.
Lack of faith has caused great companies to go bankrupt, and
likewise a deep and abiding faith can move mountains. — HELEN K.
LESLIE, National Business Woman
Life can do strange things to educated people who try to live by

intellect.alone, who go their own perverse ways, dashing their heads
against the stone wall of God's law in a moral universe. Reason alone
is not sufficient to orient a person in this mysterious universe. For a
balanced concept of the meaning of existence, there must also be
faith in a God who c a r e s . - J A M E S W. KENNEDY, Minister's
Shop-Talk (Harper & Row)
. . . man, as I judge, being almost incurably religious, cannot live

happily or fruitfully without some faith; atheistic Communism is
certainly a faith, though it would be wrong to call it a religion. In
this new 'scientific' age, however, many or perhaps the majority of
men live without any sense of spiritual security; tossed on the waves
of circumstance and dazed by the discoveries of Science they
'fluctuate without term or scope'; at best they are hesitant
half-believers in some ill-articulated creed. — NATHANIEL MICK-
LEM, A Religion for Agnostics (SCM Press)
Most of our so-called beliefs are negative, not positive. We can

say with vigor and precision exactly what we are against; but when
asked to profess our positive beliefs, we are vague, generally confused
and self-contradictory. - SYDNEY HARRIS, Courtesy Chicago
Daily News and Publisher's-Hall Syndicate
Most of us are reluctant about expressing our deeply held beliefs.

But all of us admire the mature man who, while tolerant and
considerate of other views, organizes and runs his own life according
to clear and tested convictions — beliefs that provide a solid anchor
in times of stress. — HERMAN A. MOENCH, Hoard's Dairyman
Our faith grows by expression. If we want to keep our faith, we

must share it. We must act! - BILLY GRAHAM, The Quotable Billy
Graham, edited by CORT R. FLINT (Droke House)
Pity the human being who is not able to connect faith within
himself with the infinite. He who has no faith has ego — ego swollen
to the nth degree. And that never has a happy ending. He who has
faith has also humility. He has an inward reservoir of courage, hope,
confidence, calmness, an assuring trust that all will come out
well — even though to the world it may appear to come out most
badly. - B.C. FORBES, Forbes
Reason indeed has its place; but when argument has done it's
best, when philosophy and historical research have shot their last
bolt, faith lies beyond. - O. FIELDING CLARKE, For Christ's Sake
(Morehouse-Barlow)
Religion without prayer is barren, empty. But prayer without

praise is drudgery and unfruitful. The real test of our faith is our
ability to sing in the night when darkness and pain overwhelm
us. - SAMUEL YOUNG, Herald of Holiness
(Some) dare not believe because they are afraid that what they
most deeply want is not true. - NELS F.S. FERRE, Faith and
Reason (Harper & Row)
The average man who goes wrong in belief does it when he
forgets that there are other truths besides his favorite one. — CLE-
LAND B. McAFEE, Near To the Heart Of God (The Bobbs-Merrill
Co.)
The Christian faith is a revolutionary thing, an adventure, a

thrust. - T. CECIL MYERS, Thunder On The Mountain (Abingdon
Press)
The greatest generation always believes, and the poor generation

is governed by its doubts. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh Every
The living faith of the dead has become the dead faith of the
living. - quoted by JOHN THOMPSON, Christianity Today, By
Permission
The most dangerous heresy of our time, it bears repeating, is the

belief that belief in itself is a good thing, regardless of its content; for
faith that is attached to an unworthy or inadequate object makes
people less than they are, not more. — SYDNEY HARRIS, Courtesy,
Chicago Daily News and Publisher's-Hall Syndicate.
The most important single aim in life should be to dig beneath

the secondhand faith that believes only from the top of the mind or
the absurd unbelief we have inherited from a pseudo-scientific
environment to a first-hand faith that accepts the meaning, courage,
and hope that has made life beautiful to countless thousands in every
age. - LANCE WEBB, On the Edge of the Absurd (Abingdon Press)
The one thing lacking in modern man with all his magnificent
scientific and material progress is the faith in the present and the
future that enables him to live with hope and courage and sets him
free to care responsibly for his fellows. — LANGE WEBB, On the
Edge of the Absurd (Abingdon Press)
The reverent agnosticism of a great scientist may be far more

deeply religious than the glib assurance of those who lightly and
familiarly take upon their lips the name of God. — NATHANIEL
MICKLEM, A Religion for Agnostics (SCM Press)
Those who might seem to have the most reason to distrust life
because of its hardships are the ones who have come through with
the strongest faith. - RALPH W. SOCKMAN, How To Believe
(Abingdon Press)
To believe is to be strong, doubt cramps energy. Belief is

power. - FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON, Forbes.
To get a clear idea of the meaning of your faith, try translating

creeds into deeds. — HAROLD E. KOHN, Adventures In Insight
(Wm. B. Eerdmans)
True faith is not a belief held in the mind. It is not hope or a

mere pious attitude. Faith is a flame in the heart, a fire in the soul.
When you have true faith, you do not hope or believe — you
know. - FRANK ROSE, Science of Mind
We are the dispossessed — the dispossessed of faith; the physi-

cally or spiritually homeless. . . Let me believe in some-
thing. - ARTHUR KOESTLER, quoted by W. PAUL JONES, The
Recovery of Life's Meaning (Association Press)
We are the personification of the things we really believe

in. — Megiddo Message
What is faith? It is the ability to feel the touch of a hand made

cold by death, to hear across the great barrier the gentle, soothing
voice of those we loved. It is the ability to face the trials of life with
courage and to confront its problems with undimmed eyes. — RABBI
HARRY HALPERN, The Quotable American Rabbis, edited by
SAMUEL M. SILVER (Droke House)
When a man puts the great question to a girl and asks her to
marry him, he does not have to offer her a blueprint of the future,
with all the details filled in. He may have plans, but they both know
that they are far from infallible. He is asking her to trust herself to
him; to make a personal commitment to him, on the basis of what
she knows of his character. And there is the foundation of the whole
transaction. In the same way, God asks us to put our trust in Him.
Without our commitment to Him, the relationship is incomplete and
the fullness of His plan for our lives is unavailable to us. — A.
MORGAN DERHAM, The Mature Christian (Fleming H. Revell)
Where religion is an emotional feeling, divorced from doctrinal
commitment, the situation is perfectly arranged for faith to be lost in
a blissful assurance that any kind of religion must be
g o o d . - R O B E R T G. MIDDLETON, Tensions In Modern Faith
Qudson Press)
Without risk, faith is an impossibility. —Arkansas Methodist
Mt. 6:30
Mt. 8:26
Mt. 9:29
Mt. 14:31
Mt. 16:8
Mt. 17:20
Mk. 11:22
Lk. 12:28
Lk. 17:5
Rom. 10:17
I Cor. 13:2
Gal. 6:10
Eph.6:16
IThess 1:3
IThess5:8
Heb.10:23
Heb. 11
Heb. 12:1-2
Jas. 2:17
FAMILY
Children should not be underestimated. The minds of little

children, like wet cement, are capable of receiving and retaining deep
impressions. - OSWALD C. J. HOFFMAN, United Evangelical
Action
Children who grow up without limits, direction, or discipline,

whose parents say, "Oh, do anything you want, just stay out of my
hair," generally end up as delinquents, and finally as adult criminals.
Our children want and need discipline, to know the limits, the right
and wrong of things and why. — LANCE WEBB, On the Edge of the
Absurd (Abingdon Press)
Each child is an adventure into a better life — an opportunity to

change the old pattern and make it new. — HUBERT H.
HUMPHREY, The Quotable Hubert H. Humphrey, edited by
PERRY D. HALL (Droke House)
Every newborn babe is a facsimile of Eternity engraved upon

living c l a y . - R A B B I ALEXANDER ALAN STEINBACH, The
Quotable American Rabbis, edited by SAMUEL M. SILVER (Droke
House)
Teenage children look back on permissive homes as_ unhappy

places. They feel that permissive parents let them down. Children
want some order and direction. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh
Every Morning (Harper & Row)
The child needs strength to lean on, a shoulder to cry on, and an
example to learn from. - HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, Children
There are really no problem children — only children with

problems. - J O S E P H CRESCIMBENI, Education
The three enemies of child life are ignorance, poverty and

alcohol, every one of them preventable. — SIR DONALD McLean
Why are children likely to be more mentally alive than are most
adults? Could it be because they have not yet allowed their minds to
become overlaid with thick insulation? Their awareness of the world
around them has not been deadened by familiarity. Their curiosity
has not yet been dulled by too much adult scoffing at childish
questioning, and their capacity for wide-eyed wonder is not yet
lessened by the busyness with little things that all too soon robs life
of its luster. - HAROLD E. KOHN, Adventures In Insight (Wm. B.
Eerdmans)
Prov. 4:1
Prov. 5:7
Prov. 7:24
Prov. 8:32
Isa. 30:1
Mt. 19:13-14
Eph. 6:1-3
Col. 3:20
Family —
A united family is a defense against communist and other social
and political forces attempting to change our way ol life. The family
unit is a weapon against attack. It strives to protect and nurture each
member so that he may realize his fullest potential as a useful citizen
of the community. - THOMAS E. CONNOLLY, Manage
The family is still the cornerstone of human development, no

matter how complicated society may have become. — FLEMMIE
KITTRELL, From Journal of American Association of University
Women, March, 1966, By Permission
There is no doubt that it is around the family arid the home that
all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human
society, are created, strengthened, and maintained. — WINSTON
CHURCHILL in My Darling Clementine By Jack Fishman. By
Permission of David McKay Co., Inc. and W.H. Allen and Co.
Unless people learn to live together in the family, they aren't

likely to learn to get along with anybody anywhere. — T. CECIL
Father —
Father has it in his power to reduce delinquency and youthful
crime. He has a decided influence on his child's mental health and on
his I.Q. He has a great impact on his son's "manliness" and bent
toward success. He is the apple of his daughter's eye and helps her
flower into femininity. He is, in short, close to indispensable. While
the child may be closer to the mother in the early years, he turns
toward the father as the most interesting and exciting parent as he
enters the teens, according to one researcher. — DR. STANLEY F.
YOLLES, The Sunday School Times
Many an excellent man is tempted to forget that the best offering

he can make his children is himself. - HENRY NEUMANN, in The
Speaker's Special Occasion Book (Droke House)
Many fathers are good at lecturing and preaching to their

children, but they are not good at setting an example daily in front
of them. - BILLY GRAHAM, The Quotable Billy Graham, edited by
Most children have no idea of what their father does when he

goes to work. Being completely ignorant of the strain and stress most
men undergo, they find it hard to understand an irritable father or a
tired one. . . . In the old days, farm children saw their father sweating
in the fields, and the respect came naturally to them.
I think that whenever possible a father should take his children
on visits to the place where he works. . . . the children should be
given a clear idea of the difficulties involved in making a
living. - SLOAN WILSON, Family Weekly
Some children were asked one day: "What do I want my father

to do that he is not doing now?" Replies such as "Stay at home
more!" "Be with me more!" pricked the fathers' ears as they
listened. It seemed that the children cried in one voice, "We want to
see more of our fathers!" - A. TALIAFERRO THOMPSON, Adven-
tures in Parenthood (John Knox Press)
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to

love their mother. - PRESIDENT HESBURGH OF NOTRE DAME,
quoted by GEORGE E. SWEAZEY, In Holy Marriage (Harper &
Row)
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but
it will be heard by posterity. — The War Cry
Ps. 103:13
Prov. 3:12
Prov. 4:1
Prov. 10:1
Eph. 6:4
Home —
A home in which there is never a shared prayer is a building
without a center of reference. D. ELTON TRUEBLOOD, A
Treasury of Faith, Edited by LEON and ELFRIEDA McCAULEY
(Dell)
A house should be more than shelter; it should be an ex-

perience. - WENDELL H. LOVETT, American Home
Christianity had better go to work on the conscience of the

home. We need a new kind of temperance, a temperance about
things — "adornments," appliances, gadgets, furnishings — and a
restoration of mindfulness of the grace of God without which homes
cannot exist. - HAZEN G. WERNER, The Bible and the Family
(Abingdon Press)
Home is where life makes up its mind. — HAZEN G. WERNER
Homes do not need less work but more love. — MILO ARNOLD,
This Adventure Called Marriage (Beacon Hill Press)
John Payne, who composed Home Sweet Home, never had a

home of his own. He wrote the song when he was penniless and
homeless in Paris. - WALTER WINCHELL
Living one's religion in the home is more important than

believing it. - HAZEN G. WERNER, The Bible and the Family
(Abingdon Press)
Our country can only be as strong and as morally right as is the

American home, the American home centers around the
mother — the homemaker. As she demonstrates purpose, character
and ideals to her children and to the community in which she lives,
so she, in turn, becomes a truly responsible citizen. — MRS.
WILLIAM H. HASEBROCK, Vital Speeches of the Day
Our homes are not merely refuges from the storms and
vicissitudes of life, where we find rest and renewal. They are also
places where young lives are bent, molded and trained. A house may
be built with materials of brick, stone, wood and plaster, but a true
home is built with faith in God, love, unselfishness, consideration,
patience, prayer, praise and work. — L. NELSON BELL, The
Wesleyan Methodist
The child who lives in a home where love is real is blessed far
beyond the child whose father can write him a big check. — GER-
ALD KENNEDY, Fresh Every Morning (Harper & Row)
The Church can preach, the schools can teach, but the home
must convert sermons and lessons into a way of life. — ISADORE
GARSEK, Rotagraph
The hope of our nation is not found only in her material riches
or scientific achievements. The true hope is found in the sacred
sanctuary of the home. It is in the home that the foundations are laid
that will build the men and women who will continue to help
preserve our nation's heritage. As long as we have mothers and
fathers who feel that they have a duty to mold the moral characters
of their children, we need not lose hope. - DON JENNINGS, Prarie
Farmer
The stark consequence of the secularism of our day is the empty

home — the kind of home that has nothing to live up to and nothing
to hand down. - HAZEN G. WERNER, The Bible and the Family
(Abingdon Press)
Biblical Reference:
Mt. 12:25
Mother —
A child is like an octopus. Its arms will reach out for something,
whether that something be food or poison. Radio, television, alleys,
servants, playgrounds, pictures, books — all are teachers. . . . A
mother would not allow her child to eat from a garbage can, and yet
when that garbage is translated into evil for the mind, there is no
shirking from its reception. — FULTON J. SHEEN, The Quotable
Fulton J. Sheen, edited by FREDERICK GUSHURST (Droke
House)
A mother is as different from anything else that God ever

thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual
creation. — Quote
If childhood is the most strategic time for training, then mothers
are the greatest character builders. — J . M . PRICE, Vital Problems in
Christian Living (Convention Press)
Mothers may think they can turn their children over to

housekeepers and have their own careers outside the home, but that
does not work any better today than it did a thousand years ago.
There are unchanging laws which govern the home and the family,
and if in the name of being new and up-to-date we ignore those laws
and break them, the only result is broken homes and delin-
quency. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh Every Morning (Harper &
Row)
The queen of the home stands at the point where the new world
is being made — the world that needs many things but most of all
needs better people. - D. ELTON TRUEBLOOD, A Treasury of
Faith, Edited by LEON and ALFRIEDA McCAULEY (Dell)
Biblical Reference:
Prov. 31:10-31
Parents —
There is . . . no single answer to the problem of childhood
discipline. But there is always the central question: For what
future? - MARGARET MEAD, Redbook
A child is a mirror. A mirror that reflects happiness, or the lack
of it, in the home. To improve the image that is seen in this mirror,
parents must shoulder their God-given responsibilities. Their job
cannot be shifted to the Church, the school, or social agencies; these
organizations can assist but they cannot, and should not, supplant
the work of the parents. - RICHARD N. CURTIS, Catholic Layman
A child's parents are his conscience for a good many years of his
life. Their standards are his standards. His good feelings, his
self-confidence, his grappling with the world are all bound up with
your outlook. A child is always becoming — never standing still. The
small world you make for your baby now is a piece of the world of
the future. - MAJA BERNATH, Baby Care Manual
All husbands and wives borrow their children. Our children are
not our own; our children belong to God. He has loaned them to us
for a season . . . They are not ours to keep, but to rear. They are not
given to us to mold into our image. They are not given to us so that
we can force them to fulfill our lives and thus, in some way, cancel
our failures. They are not tools to be used, but souls to be
loved. - THOMAS C. SHORT, Pulpit Digest
A young boys's character is like good clay. The hands that mold
it determine the shape of the man. — Boys Ranch Roundup
Externalism in parenthood means provision for all of a child's

material needs and neglecting the cultivation of his spirit, furnishing
a splendid house but a poor home, giving him good toys but dull
table conversation, teaching a child to brush his teeth without
inspiring him to brush his mind, training him to keep his body clean
but not his soul. - HAROLD E. K O H N , ^ Touch Of Greatness (Wm.
B. Eerdmans)
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder he needs the

companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering
with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live
in. - RACHEL CARSON, The Sense of Wonder (Harper & Row)
If you wish to train up a -child in the way he should go, just

skirmish ahead on that line yourself. - HAZEN G. WERNER, The
Bible and the Family (Abingdon Press)
It has been observed that children can steal before they can walk,
and lie before they can talk; so religious training and Christian
discipline cannot begin too soon. — BILLY GRAHAM, The Quotable
Billy Graham, edited by CORT R. FLINT (Droke House)
It is not a question of the amount of time you spend with your

child. The important thing is to be with him every moment you are
together, consciously and wholeheartedly. — HAZEN G. WERNER,
The Bible and the Family (Abingdon Press)
It's been my observation that most problem children have

problem parents. It is usually safe to assume that the parents of well
adjusted and mature children will be able to sit down and discuss
objectively their children's needs. But a boy cr girl who is a
continuous trouble maker and will not submit to any measure of
discipline, will usually have one or both parents who are un-
cooperative and immature themselves. — DON BOOTH, 77ie Wes-
leyan Methodist
Look at some of the lopsided standards we have set up for our

children. Our preoccupation with things gives evidence that material
status is our most demanding goal. We move from erne neighborhood
to another to better ourselves. We acquire a succession of new cars to
prove our prestige in the market place . . . Little wonder they have
lost the sense of meaning in life, for the meaning in material goods
alone is feeble and fleeting. - K. MORGAN EDWARDS, Afore Than
Survival (Abingdon Press)
Much of our delinquency occurs among the children of the better

class homes! You may boast about membership ir swanky country
clubs and of your 2 cars and golf scores, yet your children may be
emotionally so anemic and unhappy that he may even contemplate
an overdose of sleeping tablets. So by all means show your affection!
Verbalize your love! And also let your children see and thus vivdly
realize that "Daddy loves Mamma" and vice versa. — Dr. GEORGE
W.CRANE.
Remember that the course of giant enterprises and nations rests,

however indirectly, with individuals. Each pareni in building the
character of his child, also builds his nation and its future. The
successful parent is truly the architect of tomorrow. — MARY
ELLEN GOODMAN, Parents' Magazine
Responsible parenthood and parental integrity add up to a
stability in home life — a stability that engenders respect for persons,
for property, for the rules of the game. - HAZEN G. WERNER, The
Bible and the Family (Abingdon Press)
The child who experiences love in an atmosphere of love between

husband and wife has the best prognosis of a healthy life. — RABBI
MOSES B. SACHS, The Quotable American Rabbis, edited by
Show me a home in which the parents practice self-discipline and

I'll show you a home where a mother and father hold the love and
respect of their children. A youngster asks only to be taught the
boundaries of acceptable behavior. Discipline, fairly and consistently
invoked, breeds pride and r e s p e c t . - J . EDGAR HOOVER, The
Speaker's Desk Book, edited by LAWRENCE HEMBREE (Grosset &
Dunlap)
The nation of tomorrow is being fashioned now by our faith, our
fidelity, our convictions about God and duty, life, and destiny; and
by what we believe and teach children in our homes
today. - ARTHUR J. MOORE, Fight On! Fear Not! (Abingdon
Press)
The only reward parents have is that of good children. — T. CECIL

Treat a child as he is and he will remain as he is; but treat him as

he could, should and might be, then he will strive to become the kind
of person you convey to him. — WILLIAM MOORE, JR., School and
Community
Responsible parents — this is our prime need. Parental inepti-

tude - this is our current sin. - HAZEN G. WERNER, The Bible and
the Family (Abingdon Press)
Ps. 127:3
Eph. 6:4
FEAR
. . . men dominated by fear find the world in a mess while men

dominated by faith find it in revolution. — EUGENE M. FRANK.
Evangelism and Contemporary Issues, edited by GORDON PRATT
BAKER (Tidings)
Fear is nothing but faith in reverse gear. The foundation on

which both faith and fear rests is belief in something. — NAPOLEON
HILL, Cadle Call
If we only knew it, we are fearing the wrong chings. We used to
fear God; now we fear our fellow man. - FULTON J. SHEEN, The
Quotable Fulton J. Sheen, edited by FREDERICK GUSHURTS
(Droke House)
Our greatest enemies are not wild beasts or deadly germs but
fears that paralyze thought, poison the mind, and destroy character.
Our only protection against fear is faith. — RYLLIS GOSLIN
LYNIP, Great Ideas of the Bible (Harper & Row)
What would you say is our greatest enemy? Communism?

Materialism? Greed? Alcoholism? Prejudice? Racism? Poverty? Self?
The Nuclear bomb? I suggest that our greatest adversary is fear.
From the cradle to the grave, fear casts its dark shadow upon our
path like some hideous ghost. Fear of loneliness, of rejection, of
inferiority, of failure. - W. LYNN CROWDING, Grit
Gen. 26:24 Prov. 9:10
Job 28:28 Isa. 41:10
Ps. 23:4 Lk. 12:5
Ps. 34:4 Lk. 21:26
Ps. 111:10
Prov. 1:17
Prov. 8:3
FORGIVENESS
Nothing greater can happen to a human being than that he be

forgiven. And there can be no great love of things, ideas, or persons
without an understanding of the central, ethical role that forgiveness
should play in human affairs . . . Pure forgiveness is unconditional; it
exacts no tribute, requires no moral barter. Forgiveness is the divine
answer to the very question implied in human existence, for we all,
all of us, are creatures who are fallible. This is why no man can truly
love unless he accepts forgiveness as a way of life. For the deeper our
experience of forgiveness, the greater our love. — RABBI STUART
E. ROSENBERG, Pulpit Digest
The past — by and large — is irrevocable. But true forgiveness

looks ahead. It sees the things yet to be done, lessons to be learned,
and experiences to be shared. True forgiveness tries to help a man
upward and onward. It does not hold him back and shove him down.
Forgiveness gives a man a new page on which to write his
life. —Herald of Holiness
We need . . . the power to forget the harm that others have done
to us . . . I remember a man who vented his anger in a tirade about
some offense done to him by another. His rage was so strong I asked
him when it had happened, thinking it must have been only the day
before yesterday. His reply: Twenty years ago. For two long decades
he had nursed his anger to keep it warm. — ROSS BLAKE,
Presbyterian Life
Mt. 5:44
Mt. 6:12
Mt. 6:15
Mt. 18:21-35
Mk. 11:25
Lk. 6:35-37
Lk. 17:3-4
Lk. 23:34
Eph. 4:32
Col. 3:13
I J n . 1:9
GOD
. . . a God you can take for granted isn't big enough for you and
me today. - FREDERICK B. SPEARMAN, God and Jack Wilson
(Fleming H. Revell)
A man ought to be able to identify his gods. F ar man's choice is

never between the true God and no god, but between the true God
and some lesser object which claims his ultimate devotion and thus
becomes his god. - OWEN M. WEATHERLY, The Ten
Commandments in Modern Perspective (John Knox Press)
And God? He is no longer standard equipment. He has become

the great accessory to whom there is little occasion to turn save as
one wants to get or forget something. — CARLYLE MARNEY,
Structures of Prejudice (Abingdon Press)
Biblical man doesn't go looking for God, he bumps into

him . . . God is accepted because he can't be avoided. Indeed, man
would often like to avoid God, and tries to do so by assorted kinds
of disobedience. But there is no dodging Reality. — CHESTER A.
PENNINGTON, With Good Reason (Abingdon Press)
Each of us has a point which we will by r o means let God

approach. This point may be my ambition whereby I am determined
to beat my way to success in my career at any price . . . God can
have everything, but not this one thing . . . Now, the curious thing is
that God lets me find him only when I offer to him this one, hardest
thing in my life. In other words, God never comes through the door
that I hold open to him, but always knocks at the one place which I
have walled up with concrete, because I want it for myself
alone. - HELMUT THIELICKE, How The World Began (Fortress
Press)
False ideas of God can be corrected. It is much more difficult to

correct no idea of God. — MAX WARREN, Interpreting the Cross
(SCM Press)
God became man without ceasing to be God so that men might

be godly without ceasing to be men. — R. E. C. BROWNE, The
Ministry of the Word (SCM Press)
God does not choose the fit. He outfits those whom He

chooses. — Church Militant
God is being increasingly edged out of the world, now that it has
come of age. Knowledge and life are thought to be perfectly possible
without him. - DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, Letters and Papers from
Prison (SCM Press London and Macmillan Co., N.Y. Revised
Translation 1967, p . 188)
God may well be taken as a substitute for everything; but

nothing can be taken as a substitute for God. — ANONYMOUS
God only comes to those who ask him to come; and he cannot
refuse to come to those who implore him long, often and
ardently. — Reprinted By Permission of G.P. Putnam's Sons From
Waiting For God, By SIMONE WEIL. Copyright 1951 by G.P.
Putnam's Sons.
God penetrates our consciousness with sudden inspiration,

unexpected brilliant moments and unexplainable
illuminations. - ROBERT H. SCHULLER, Your Future Is Your
Friend (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
He calls us into His Church to accept the cost and joy of

discipleship, to be His servants in the service of men, to proclaim the
Gospel to all the world, and to resist the powers of evil. — Statement
of Faith of The United Church of Christ
He disturbs our favorite opinions, dwarfs our treasured ideals,

revolutionises our comfortable judgements, makes our racial, social,
intellectual, and religious prejudices look extremely silly. He exposes
our false assumptions and would rebuild our lives according to new
patterns — and we are afraid that we might lose too
much! - R. E. O. WHITE, The Stranger of Galilee (Wm. B.
Eerdmans)
If God loved you as much as you love Him, where would you
be? - ANONYMOUS
If there is anything in our town that is debasing life, God has an
intense interest in it. - ROY L. SMITH, Together
I have just related the story of a missed vocation; I need God, He

was given to me, I received Him without realizing that I was seeking
Him. Failing to take root in my heart, He vegetated in me for a
while, then He died. Whenever anyone speaks to me about Him
today, I say, with the easy amusement of an old beau who meets a
former belle: "Fifty years ago, had it not been for that misunder-
standing, that mistake, the accident that separated us, there might
have been something between us.—JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, The
Words (George Braziller)
I have never known a real atheist. Most of those who claim to be

do not really deny the existence of God, they simply object to
someone else's idea of God. — MAXIE D. DUNNAM, Channels of
Challenge (Abingdon Press)
Our lives are a manifestation of what we think about

God. - ANONYMOUS
"Please leave something for God to d o ! " I once exclaimed to a

man who was overcome with worries about how to avoid doing
anything wrong. All this effort expended on oneself never leads to
anything but fresh failure. - PAUL TOURNIER, The Person Reborn
(Harper & Row)
Questions of the nature of God and of His Christ will never be

settled in the arena of human philosophy, or by charge and
countercharge. We are not called upon to explain God but to
proclaim His saving purpose for mankind. — W. T. PURKISER,
Herald of Holiness
The deepest need of man is not food and clothing and shelter,
important as they are. It is God. - THOMAS R. KELLEY, A
Testament of Devotion (Harper & Row)
There are, thank God, as many answers in the heart of God as

there are problems in the heart of man. - GEORGE E. FAILING,
The Wesleyan Methodist
. . . there can be no God unless there are complementary

personalities with whom He can share experiences and to whom He
can trust His creative p u r p o s e . . . He cannot be God, in the
elemental meaning of the name, until conscious creatures, endowed
with the power of will, recognize Him and respond to Him. — GOR-
DON PRATT BAKER, In the School of Christ (Tidings)
The world is a great university. From the cradle to the grave, we

are always in God's great kindergarten where everything is trying to
teach us its lesson. — O. S. MARDEN, Gospel Herald
. . . we dislike God because God is Someone who interferes with

this self-centerdness and independence, Man likes to think of himself
as completely autonomous, but here is Someone who challenges that,
and may be nature dislikes Him. - D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES,
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
What determines the kind of life, family, church, or nation is

finally our vision of God and how we respond to Him. — NELS
F. S. FERRE, God's New Age (Harper & Row)
What men want is not a conviction about God; what they really
want is an experience of God. - HENRY P. VAN DUSEN, A
Treasury of Faith, edited by LEON and ELFRIEDA McCAULEY
(Dell)
When a Person so infinite is living with us pervading our

thoughts, guiding our steps, how could we help but know it? —J.
KENNETH GRIDER, Conquest
When God became the property of specialized theologians,

generalized peddlers took Him over and redesigned Him for mass
consumption. —MARTIN E. MARTY, The New Shape of American
Religion (Harper & Row)
When God sees us submerged in a sea of TV sets and napalm

bombs, of Auschwitz and Ku Klux Klan, or tranquilizers and sleeping
pills, can God truly believe in us? - STANLEY YEDWAB, The
Quotable American Rabbis, edited by SAMUEL M. SILVER (Droke
House)
Whether we know it or not, we are becoming more and more a
secularistic nation, where man himself is becoming an idol. We are
humanizing God and deifying man. — BILLY GRAHAM
Who . . . has ever seen an idea? . . . who has ever seen

love? . . . who has ever seen faith? . . . The real things in the world
are the invisible spiritual realities. Is it so difficult, then, to believe in
God? - CHARLES TEMPLETON, Life Look Up (Harper & Row)
Gen. 1:1 Mt. 6:24
Ex. 3:14 Mt. 19:17
Ex. 20:3 Mk. 10:18
Ex. 34:6 Mk. 12:32
Deut. 4:31 Lk. 16:13
Deut. 7:9 Lk. 18:19
Deut. 10:17 J n . 4:24
Deut. 33:27 J n . 8:41
Jos. 1:9 J n . 13:31
Jos. 24:19 J n . 17:3
II Kings 19:14-19 Acts 2:22
J o b 11:7 Acts 5:29
Job 33:12 Acts 10:34
Ps. 14:1 Rom. 8:31
Ps. 18:31 Rom. 15:5
Ps. 19:1 I Cor. 1:9
Ps. 54:4 I Cor. 8:6
Ps. 73:26 I Cor. 10:13
Ps. 89:7 I Cor. 14:33
Ps. 99:9 Heb. 3:4
Ps. 100:4-5 Heb. 12:29
Ps. 104:2-4 I J n . 1:5
Ps. 116:5 I J n . 4:8
Isa. 9:6-7 I J n . 4:16
Isa. 12:2 Rev. 21:4
Isa. 45:22
Isa. 46:9
Jer. 10:10
Jer. 31:33
Mic. 7:18
GOD-IS-DEAD-MOVEMENT
God is living for those who trust him and obey him. Only those
who are dead to him think that he is dead to them. When they
pronounce that "God" is meaningless, they are advertising their own
spiritual bankruptcy. - MERRILL TENNEY, Wheaton College
Alumni News
God is not only alive — God is laughing at the silly arguments of

the supposedly learned men who lead this movement. — BILLY
(Droke House)
If it is true that there is no God, then the whole of human life,

both private and public, has to be reorganized on the basis of this
new truth. - ETIENNE GILSON, The Ensign
In a free society even the most radical theologians may

promulgate their notions. But let them not do so on the ground that
they are speaking to people who are necessarily more mature than
those who have gone on before. — CARL F. H. HENRY, Christianity
Today, By Permission
I protest this constant phrase, "finding God." I have never heard

that He was lost. Let us speak not of "finding" but "of being aware."
God is playing no game of hide-and-seek. It is not his hiddenness; it is
our blindness. — PAUL SCHERER, Event in Eternity (Harper &
Row)
It is no easy matter to catch this slogan ("God is Dead") by the

tail and force it to yield up its secret. Why has it become so popular
all of a sudden, turning into a rallying point for avant-garde theology
in the sixties? One possible answer to the question is that it satisfies a
psychological need of the times. It has sprung up at the moment
when the ideal of revolutionary change has become attractive, and
when the attack upon the status quo is being conceived very largely
in terms of the revolt of youth against age. — KENNETH HAMIL-
TON, God Is Dead — The Anatomy of a Slogan (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
It is rather significant that an age which has put man at the

center of the universe and pushed God beyond the circumference is
an age crowded with frustration and futility. —JOSEPH R. SIZOO,
Still We Can Hope (Abingdon Press)
It is said, in some quarters, that the problem of the Church today

is the death of God. Actually, there is a far more pressing issue that
faces the churches: not the death of God, but Ihe taming of God,
the domestication of Diety. - GABRIEL F ACKRE, Pulpit Digest
New theologies depend for their viability or being sufficiently

ambiguious to pass for both piety and blasphemy. To cry, "God is
dead!" as Thomas J . J . Altizer does, catches attention precisely
because it is fraught with blasphemy and yet somehow claims to be
said on behalf of God. Both the blasphemy and Altizer would be
insignificant if God were not really there. — HAROLD O . J .
BROWN, Christianity Today, By Permission
Some men are beginning to sense in these days that God is

obscure to our mind because we are obscure to ourselves. So long
have we dealt in facts and outward things that we find it hard to
believe in dreams, visions, emotions, and feelings. — ARTHUR F.
WHITE, Pulpit Digest
The commonest heresy of our day is that God has retired from
active life. - HARRY HUTCHINSON, A Faith To Live By (W. A.
Wilde Co)
The real issue is between those who believe that God made man
and can change him, and those who believe that man made God and
can abolish Him. - FREDERICK R. LUDWIG, The Christian Reader
There is some theory in law . . . which requires that one who goes
to the morgue to identify the corpse must have known him in life. I
think this would disqualify most of the God-is-dead theologians from
making their pronouncements and identifying that which they have
found as the God which once lived. - FRANCIS B. DOWNS, The
Forty-Niner
We know what you (our Protestant Friends) are going through

with that old "God is Dead" aberration. But don't you worry. We
will not let you down. Just as we Jews discovered Him, we will keep
Him alive for you until you are completely well again. — HARRY
GOLDEN, The Carolina Israelite
Who assassinated God? One is moved to ask whether'they were

sufficiently well acquainted with the Person pronounced dead to be
able to identify the deceased.
Am I now to tell my son that the whole business is a fraud — that
all these years I have been working for a "corpse" when I believed
that the Jesus of history emerged from the tomb on Easter Day to
become the living Christ of the Ages? The ages assure us that God
doesn't die by pronouncement, denial, or assassination. — EDWARD
L. R. ELSON, Christianity Today, By Permission.
Gen. 21:33
Deut. 5:26
Josh. 3:10
Ps. 14:1
Ps. 19:1
Ps. 42:2
Ps. 84:2
Isa. 40:28
Isa. 45:22
Jer. 10:10
Dan. 6:26
Mt. 16:16
Mt. 22:32
Mk. 12:27
Lk. 20:38
Lk. 24:1-12
J n . 4:24
Jn.6:69
J n . 13:31
Heb.10:31
Heb.12:29
GOSPEL
(see "Bible" "Christian Living" "Church" "Evangelism")
Each generation has to face anew the double task of telling the
old story in the language of the day and of being renewed
structurally in the life of the church. — From These Rebellious
Powers by ALBERT H. van den HEUVEL. Copyright, 1965,
Friendship Press, New York.
Most ministers are aware that it is a tough and delicate labor to

insert the lively power of the Word of God into the rushing
occupations and silent monologues of men.—JOSEPH SITTLER,
The Ecology of Faith (Fortress Press)
The church . . . if it is to be itself and do its work, must mediate

to the world some Word, some Presence, some norm and standard,
that are both transcendent in their origin — in some measure
"holy" - and also relevant to the world's life. — LANGDON
GILKEY, How the Church Can Minister to the World Without Losing
Itself (Harper & Row)
The command of the Lord requireth no explanation; its

execution no words. - ALBERT SCHWEITZER
The Gospel is not always 'Good News'. For some unrepentant

people who have misconstrued it, it is going to be very bad news
indeed! - THEODORE WEDEL, quoted by ROBERT BROWN,
Alive Again (Morehouse-Barlow)
The message of Galilee (has been) overlaid, with creeds and

ceremonies and doctrines, and what with denominational squabbles,
mutual disapprovals and intolerances, one can hardly catch the
message of the Son of Man or be lifted up and strengthened by its
beauty and power. - LESLIE WEATHERHEAD, The Christian
Agnostic (Abingdon Press)
The method of the gospel is neither condemnation, fear nor

force, but a new, divine fascination, the kindling of desire, the
awakening of love. — R. E. O. WHITE, Beneath rhe Cross of Jesus
(Wm. B. Eerdmans)
Ps. 119:9-16
Ps. 119:105-112
Mt. 11:5
Mk. 1:15
Mk. 13:10
Mk. 16:15
Lk.4:18
Lk. 7:22
Lk.9:6
Lk. 20:1
Acts 16:10
Acts 20:24
Rom. 1:15-16
Rom. 10:15
I Cor. 9:12
I Cor. 9:18
I Cor. 9:23
II Cor. 4:3
Gal. 2:2
Eph. 3:6
Eph.6:19
IThes. 1:5
IThes. 2:2
IThes. 2:4
Heb. 4:2
I Pet. 1:12
I Pet. 4:6
HAPPINESS
Happiness does not depend upon what happens outside of you

but on what happens inside of you. It is measured by the spirit in
which you meet the problems of life. The master secret of happiness
is to meet the challenge of each new day with serene faith. — Nuggets
The search for happiness by turning one's back on humanity kills

happiness. — FULTON J. SHEEN, Portraits in a Darkened Forest
(Meredith Press)
Every life has its dark and its cheerful hours. Happiness comes
from choosing which to remember. — Construction Digest
Happiness has a habit of pursuing the person who feels grateful

to his God, comfortable with his conscience, in favor with his
friends, in love with his labors, and in balance with his
banker. - WILLIAM R. WARD,
Happiness is a by-product of achievement. — Megiddo Message
Happiness is a direction — not a place. — BILL SANDS, My

Shadow Ran Fast (Prentice-Hall)
Happiness is not an item to be found in the market place, but

rather a precious stone found on rough roads, that by-pass the
citadels of splendor, envy and greed. — DOUGLAS MEADOR,
Matador Tribune
Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are

too busy to be miserable. — Mutual Moments
Happiness naturally follows as you become part of life's solution

rather than its problem. — The War Cry
How foolish to make happiness consist in that which one day we

must leave. - FULTON J. SHEEN, The Quotable Fulton J. Sheen,
edited by FREDERICK GUSHURST (Droke House)
The happiest men are those who are thankful for life's
responsibilities, not for its prizes. — Construction Digest
Peace —
May we learn the everlasting lesson that peace comes not by
changing maps, but by changing m e n . - J A M E S H. GRIFFITHS,
Forbes
Peace is not simply the end of hostility, nor is it simply the

cessation of war, but rather peace comes only to those who give
themselves to a cause so great that together we find the means of
harmony and meaning. - MYRON S. AUGSBURGER, Moody
Monthly
Peace is not something that just happens. It is created, it is

constructed. — POPE PAUL VI, Dialogues: Reflections on God and
Man, translated and arranged by JOHN G. CLANCY (Trident)
Until we solve the human equation called man and get him
straightened out, we will never have a peaceful world. You've got to
be better men before you can have a better society. — BILLY
(Droke House)
We've got to recognize that we are not working (primarily) for a

peaceful world. Peace will be a by-product of something else. We are
working for a world of justice and rightness. Peace is a by-product of
justice and mercy. - STANLEY HIGH, The Evangel
Job 5:17
Ps. 144:15
Ps. 146:5
Prov. 3:13
Prov. 14:21
Prov. 16:20
Prov. 29:18
J n . 13:17
I Pet. 3:14
HOLY SPIRIT
A common criticism of a play is that "it lacks, the courage of its

first act." One of the great needs of the churches today is to regain
the courage of the first act - at Pentecost. - HALFORD E. LUC-
COCK, Recapturing Pentecost (Tidings)
It will forever be true that the clear witness of the Church to the
world will depend on the clear witness of the Spirit to believers. —J.
PAUL TAYLOR, Holiness the Finished Foundation (Light and Life
Press)
No one is so tender as the Holy Spirit — so tender and so patient.

And yet he comes to rally us, to bring us to our feet again, to help us
to face life still unafraid. - ARTHUR JOHN GOSSIP, Interpreter's
Bible, volume 8, edited by GEORGE A. BUTTRICK (Abingdon
Press)
. . . one day I found Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit and I
discovered it was He that I had been seeking all my life. How
wonderful to find that burning fire quieted within me — to find my
life c o m p l e t e . - J E R O M E HINES, Reprinted By Permission From
Christian Life Magazine, Copyright, September, 1964, Christian Life
Publications, Inc., Gundersen Drive and Schmale Road, Wheaton,
Illinois 60187
The Holy Spirit is a special gift of the New Covenant bestowing

Christ in His redemptive work of perpetuating His spiritual presence
among His people. - W. H. GRIFFITH THOMAS, The Holy Spirit of
God (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
The Holy Spirit is the breath of God, which fills us with life
anew, and directs our hearts and minds into the doing of what God
loves and does. — HALFORD E. LUCCOCK, Recapturing Pentecost
(Tidings)
The old, organized Church needs the new invasions of the Spirit
for freshness and reality, for a retourn to first loves and first
principles, for renewal and awakening and a rediscovery of the
spiritual power that is often lost by sheer custom and rou-
tine. - SAMUEL SHOEMAKER, By the Power of God (Harper &
Row)
The Spirit whom he sends us is a strong Spirit, with rousing calls
upon us. He braces; he revives; he reinvigorates; he puts new heart
and courage into those who were dispirited; and rally the broken
ranks, enables us to snatch victory out of defeat. — ARTHUR JOHN
GOSSIP, Interpreter's Bible, volume 8, edited by GEORGE A.
BUTTRICK (Abingdon Press)
The true believer in the Holy Spirit is one who knows how to
hoist the sail of his own spirit to catch the winds of God. — RALPH
W. SOCKMAN.rYou; to Believe (Abingdon Press)
We are not going to set this world on fire by condemnation of it

or by conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives
ignited by the Holy Spirit. - VANCE HAVNER, Why Not Just Be
Christians (Fleming H. Revell)
We must be filled with the Spirit before we can overflow. And it

is the overflowing experience that reaches others. — RALPH EARLE,
The Quest of the Spirit (Beacon Hill Press)
We need to recall that, again and again, when the fires of the
institutional Church burned low, the Spirit Yiz? blown upon the
embers and recalled the Church to its first vision and its first
love. - SAMUEL M. SHOEMAKER, With the Holy Spirit and with
Fire (Harper & Row)
Holy Living —
Christian perfection does not mean a life in which there is no
flaw of any kind at all. It means rather perfection in Christian love.
Perfection in Christian love is reached when the love of Christ is in
complete possession of the Christian's heart. — EDWIN LEWIS, The
Ministry of the Holy Spirit (Tidings)
It is a mistake to suppose that God does not want us to be holy

until death, for that would mean that He wants us to be unholy until
death. God does not want us to be unholy at any time. — ANONY-
MOUS
Only in heart can a man be perfect. - GEORGE FAILING, The

Wesleyan Methodist
Someone has said that holiness is synonymous with wholeness;

only when the divisions and tensions within a person have been
reconciled, and he is, therefore, whole, can he be at one with God
and, therefore, holy. - E. A. SOVIK, Dialog
The evidence for the new power that came at Pentecost is found
in what happened after Pentecost. Hitherto wavering in their faith,
the disciples became men of passionate conviction. Hitherto tepid in
their devotion, they became flaming witnesses to Christ. Hitherto
fearful, they became fearless. Pentecost energized them for Christian
service in the world. - SAMUEL McCREA CAVERT, Pulpit Digest
The first sign of the presence of the Holy Spirit is a hunger in the
heart for excellence. - GERALD KENNEDY, For Preachers and
Other Sinners (Harper 8c Row)
Gen. 6:3 Acts 2:33,3-8
Ps. 51:11 Acts 4:32
Ps. 139:7 Acts 8:15-19
Isa. 11:2 Acts 10:19-20
Isa. 63:10-11 Acts 11:15-17
Ez. 36:27 Acts 19:2-6
Joel 2:28-29 Rom. 5:5
Zech. 4:6 Rom. 8:1-27
Mt. 3:11 I Cor. 2:4
Mt. 10:20 I Cor. 2:10-14
Mt. 28:19 I Cor. 3:16
Mk. 13:11 I Cor. 12:3-11
Lk. 11:13 II Cor. 1:22
Lk. 12:12 Gal. 5:22-23
Lk. 24:49 Eph. 6:17-18
Jn. 1:33 I Pet. 1:15-16
J n . 3:5-6
Jn.7:38
J n . 14:16-17
J n . 14:26
J n . 15:26
J n . 16:7-14
J n . 20:22
Acts 1:2,5
Acts 1:8
Acts 2:2-4
HOPE
If we believe that there is no hope for man and no future for

civilization, then morality is a meaningless illusion; life "is a tale"
told by a divine idiot, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,"
and our existence is an obscene and impious joke, jocularly and
maleovently formulated by a supreme Demon for the malicious
purpose of humiliating and degrading man. — WILLIAM B. SILVER-
MAN, Religion for Skeptics (Jonathan David Publishers, New York)
"Tomorrow" is one of the most precious words in the vocabulary

of man, a word that offers infinite possibilities for the realization of
dreams. Predicated on hope, it suggests the dawn of a new day, the
renewal of life, and the priceless gift of time. Without the hope of
tomorrow, man is powerless and must concede the imminence of
death. With such hope, man is invincible, unconquerable, covenanted
to an affinity with life, committed to the challenge of the
future. - W I L L I A M B. SILVERMAN, Religion for Skeptics (Jona-
than David Publishers, New York)
Across chaos, God stretches the rainbow of hope. —JOSEPH R.

SIZOO, Still We Can Hope (Abingdon Press)
Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and

potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the
positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the
future. - EMIL BRUNNER, Eternal Hope (First Published in Great
Britain by Lutterworth Press, London) From Eternal Hope by EMIL
BRUNNER. Translated by HAROLD KNIGHT. Published in the
USA by the Westminister Press, 1954. Used By Permission.
Hope is the attitude of eager expectation; the confident look to

the future as having possibilities unrealized in the present. — LANCE
WEBB, On the Edge of the Absurd (Abingdon Press)
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not

permanent. - MIGNON McLAUGHLIN, The Atlantic Monthly.
Copyright © The Atlantic Monthly Company, Boston, Mass.,
Reprinted By Permission.
Hope is the greatest sustaining force in life. It is the one element

in the human spirit that will not remain subdued by diffi-
culties . . . Hope lingers on. Fortunately for man, it is the last thing
to leave him — unless he himself casts it aside. — S inshine Magazine
It is highly contagious. It banishes gloom and discouragement.

Everybody needs it. Wicked men try to kill it. Wise men never hoard
it. It can't be bought, not at any price, yet it is worth the whole
world . . . The answer, in a word, is hope. —WALTER H. CAMP-
BELL, The Lion
Life with Christ is an endless hope, without Him a hopeless

end. - ANONYMOUS
The best thing a psychiatrist can do for his patients is to light

them a candle of hope to show them the possibilities that may
become sound expectations. — KARL MENNINOER, quoted by
LANCE WEBB, On the Edge of the Absurd {Abingdon Press)
The end of ourselves is the place for a new start. Hope begins to
be possible when in ourselves there is nothing left to hope
for. - MAX WARREN, Interpreting the Cross (SCM Press)
The faith that is tested produces hope. It is one of the strangest

aspects of the history of the church that the churches under pressure
often know so much more about hope than the untroubled
churches. - Copyright © "Missions As The Test Of Faith" by W. A.
VISSER T HOOFT, The Ecumenical Review April, 1964, Vol. XVI,
No. 3, pp. 249-257
To stand in Christ is to stand in hope. —JOHN KNOX, Christ

and the Hope of Glory (Abingdon Press)
We do not hope because we hold certain beliefs about the life

everlasting; rather we hold such beliefs because we hope.—JOHN
KNOX, Christ and the Hope of Glory (Abingdon Press)
Biblical References: Jer. 17:7 I Cor. 15:9

J o b 7:6 Joel 3:16 Eph. 2:12
Job 11:18 Acts 23:6 Col. 1:27
Ps. 71:14 Rom. 4:18 Titus 2:13
Ps. 146:5 Rom. 8:24-26 I Pet. 1:3
Prov. 13:12 I Cor. 3:12 I Pet. 1:13
Prov. 14:32 I Cor. 13:13 I Pet. 3:15
LAYMAN
Laymen are members of the people of God called to a total

ministry of witness and service in the world. — GEORGIA HARK-
NESS, The Church and Its Laity (Abingdon Press)
. . . the hidden resource of the Church is its laymen. The Church

must stop sitting on its hands and must utilize the great talent of its
creative members. - M A R T I N L. SINGEWALD, Christianity Today,
By Permission
The laity are not only people who come together for worship and
fellowship, to receive the Sacraments, and to hear the word of God
from the clergy: it is they especially who are called to bridge the
gulf between the Church and the world. - WILLIAM LAWRENCE,
Parsons, Vestries, and Parishes (Seabury)
The layman is at the frontier where the church meets the world.
It is he primarily who must penetrate the secular order with the
Gospel. - ROSWELL P. BARNES, Under Orders: The Churches and
Public Affairs (Doubleday)
The layman is seen as a brake on the witness of the Church — a

social and political conservative who sanctifies the status quo. There
are laymen who actually push the pastor for a more radical Christian
witness. But these are usually a minority in any congre-
g a t i o n . - WILLIAM E. HULME, Your Pastor's Problems
(Doubleday)
The real battles of faith today are being fought in factories and
stores, in business offices, in politics, in the press and on the air.
There are still some who do not believe that the Church should enter
such areas. The truth is, that the Church is already there, in its
laity. - WILLIAM LAWRENCE, Parsons, Vestries and Parishes
(Seabury)
The role of the laity is not merely to support the church as an

institution, but to be the church — the church in its relation to
secular society. - SAMUEL McCREA CAVERT, On the Road to
Christian Unity (Harper & Row)
LEISURE
A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has

nothing to do. — Megiddo Message
He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be
better employed. - HERBERT V. PROCHNOW, 1000 Tips and
Quips for Speakers and Toastmasters (W. A. Wilde)
If I had my life to live over, I would relax more. I wouldn't take

so many things so seriously. I would take more chances. I would
climb more mountains, and swim more rivers. — I RANK DICKEY,
Guideposts
Leisure is stepping beyond the workday world and, in so doing,

touching upon the superhuman life-giving powers, which almost
i n c i d e n t a l l y , r e n e w and quicken us for our everyday
tasks. - ROBERT LEE and WILLIAM G. DOTY, Evangelism and
Contemporary Issues, edited by GORDON PRATT BAKER (Tidings)
Leisure time means different things to different people; time to

do what you want to do, time free from work, time for recreation,
time for self improvement, time to be of service to others. It is sad
when a person has no other idea than merely to spend it. — Royal
Bank of Canada Monthly Letter
Modern living, with its gadgets flowing from the production line,
has created a new disease called boredom. — BILLV GRAHAM, The
Quotable Billy Graham edited by CORT R. FLINT (Droke House)
The creative use of leisure by a minority in societies in process of

civilization has been the mainspring of all human progress beyond
primitive level. - ARNOLD TOYNBEE,
The productive use of leisure broadens the individual, expands

his interests, matures his attitudes and strengthens his skills to meet
the problems of life. He becomes a man, who through reason and
intelligence merits a place in our society. — JAMES A. WYLIE, Parks
and Recreation
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the past product of
civilization. — Parks and Recreation
Triviality — its first cousin banality — is one of the besetting sins

of our society, and never far from either is that archenemy of human
happiness, boredom. - ROBERT J. McCRACKEN, What Is Sin?
What Is Virtue? (Harper & Row)
True leisure is a change of pace, often a slowing-down to reorient

ourselves and recover the depths of meaning in our lives. — ROBERT
LEE and WILLIAM G. DOTY, Evangelism and Contemporary Issues,
edited by GORDON PRATT BAKER (Tidings)
We are in the midst of a fun explosion, a leisure time revolution.

How will modern man use his new free time do as he pleases? Bond
advocates gambling, guzzling, sports car gunning, and gour-
mandising — in short,' the conspicuous consumption of one's leisure
time and resources for the titillation of one's own nerve ends. Do we
not see here the over-anxious conscience worries about saving the
self? - LYCURGUS M. STARKEY JR., James Bond's World of
Values (Abingdon Press)
We do well to recognize that the problem of leisure is related to

the ultimate concern of life itself; it runs throughout the search for
meaning. — G. WILLIS BENNETT, Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine
With boredom and anxiety of meaninglessness go self-disgust,

lovelessness, and hate. — LANCE WEBB, On the Edge of the Absurd
(Abingdon Press)
LIFE
Challenge —
Any ugly thing is only waiting for someone wh o cares enough to
make it beautiful. — Nuggets
It's a law of life, peculiar especially to the human animal, that

challenge brings out one's best, provided it tan lead to suc-
cess. - BETTY JO MO NT AG, California Teachers Association
Journal
You show me someone who has no inspiration, and I'll show you
someone as good as dead. Show me someone with no challenges, no
goals, no great aspirations, and I'll show you someane who won't do
anything in life. - BOB RICHARDS, The Heart Of A Champion
(Spire Books)
Prov. 4:23
Phil. 1:21
Destiny —
Destiny is a fabric of events woven on the loom of time. — Rosi-
crucian Digest
If you have the wrong mental map of yourself, you will probably
come to wrong landings, a disaster instead of a destination. E.
STANLEY JONES, Victory Through Surrender (Abingdon Press)
Just as there are 3 R's there are also 3 A's of business life. They
are: Ability, Ambition and Attitude. Ability establishes what a
worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines
how much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude gurantees how
well he does. — WILBERT E. SHEER, Administritive Management
Man's destiny is in his own hands. Any law that he can

comprehend, he can control. He cannot increase or diminish the
powers of nature, but he can direct them. — HENRY STEELE
COMMAGER, The American Mind (Yale Univ. Press)
Man's most important characteristic and that which bestows

upon him his dignity is his freedom to choose. —JOSEPH WOOD
KRUTCH, If You Don't Mind My Saying So (Sloane)
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings — JOFfN

F. KENNEDY, The Burden and the Glory, edited by ALLAN
NEVINS (Harper & Row)
Our sorriest defeats come when we set our goals too low and
when we are satisfied too soon. - W. T. PURKISER, Herald of
Holiness
The person who relies on chance rather than choice, accepting

the results of a mandate from fate, is foolish. He will produce
nothing of value, regardless of how much material he may have at his
disposal. — MILO L. ARNOLD, Herald of Holiness
. . . we are shaped and our destiny is determined by what we

dare to believe. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh Every Morning
(Harper & Row)
Destiny (heaven; hell) —

Far too many people seem to expect that Hell will be as much
fun as the path leading there. — GEORGE HALL, Reprinted From
Better Homes and Gardens. ©Meredith Publishing Company, 1967
Heaven is man's house. It is the fulfillment of life beyond God's

school pf suffering. Heaven is love's final freedom when faith rests in
God. - NELS F. S. FERRE, Searchlights on Contemporary The-
ology (Harper & Row)
Heaven is not just a place. It is a house we can call "home." It is

a place to live in, a place of love and safety and splen-
dor. - GEORGE FAILING, The Wesleyan Methodist
I find no pleasure in the knowledge of the fact of hell, but I find

it my solemn duty to remind you that the same book that proclaims
the wonders of heaven also describes the terrors of eternal
banishment from God. - BILLY GRAHAM, The Quotable Billy
Graham, edited by CORT R. FLINT (Droke House)
The damned is no less an inmate of hell because he does not

believe in it. - FRANZ WERFEL, Embezzled Heaven (The Viking
Press, Inc.)
We cannot dismiss hell simply because we personally do not like
the idea. Either there is hell or there is not. If there is not,
Christianity is wrong. If there is, we had better 'ace it. — GLENN
ALTY CRAFTS, Life is Forever (Abingdon Press)
Deut. 30:19
Ps'. 39:4
Jer. 21:8
Mt. 7:13-14
Mt. 9:43-44
Example/Influence —
. . . each of us has within our grasp the tremendous assistance of
the best if we choose to make use of it. . . . study Lincoln and you
can learn to practice the friendliness of Lincoln; study Albert
Schweitzer and you can begin to feel the devotion of Schweitzer; and
study Benjamin Franklin and you can begin to have the vision of
Franklin. - CHARLES L. LAPP and JOHN W. BOWYER, Oral
Hygiene
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only

thing. - ALBERT SCHWEITZER
In matters moral and spiritual, example has always been known

to be better than precept or exhortation. — W. T. PURKISER,
Herald of Holiness
No one ever begins to become "somebody" until he has learned

to respect folks who have already become "somebody." Just be sure
you pick the right models to admire. - GALEN STARR ROSS,
Sunshine Magazine
Not one of us knows what effect his life prod aces, and what he
gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though
we are often allowed to see some small fraction of it, so that we may
not lose courage. - ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Our actions are tremendously persuasive because it is what we see

another person do that burns brightest in our memory. — RICHARD
H. SCHNEIDER, Guideposts
Our influence in the world comes not alone from our material
resources but from the appeal of our ideals. — W. AVERELL
HARRIMAN, Department of State Bulletin
Our lives are like hot wax and those we meet come and make
their imprint. The world is like a vast whispering gallery in which the
millions who have lived and died whispered some words of good or ill
while they lived. We must all exert an influence on others. We
influence every man we touch by the way we look at him and speak
to him. All the time we live, the influence we are exerting is leaving
its mark in someone and we cannot prevent it. — GORDON
CHILVERS, Watchman-Examiner
The memory of a great man is precious to mankind. Great men
live on in others. They live as hope, as inspiration, as example, as
symbols of the worth that we must attach to life. —JAMES T.
FARRELL, quoted by K. NATWAR-SINGH, Copyright ©1965 by
die John Day Co. Inc. Reprinted From The Legacy of Nehru by K.
NATWAR-SINGH
The most certain means of demonstrating the efficacy of a

principle in life is example. Exemplify what you believe in: toler-
ance, integrity, understanding, justice, honor, beauty, order, courage,
and all the rest. — Rosicrucian Digest
Biblical Reference:
Gal. 2:20
Purpose —
Some people spend so much time trying to make a killing that
they forget to make a living. — The Lookout
A purposeless life is ultimately a meaningless life. — RICHARD

E. HUNTON, Formula for Fitness (Fleming H. Revell)
Behind every good life stands, like a silent sentinel, some

conviction, a dream, a resolve, a prayer, a purpose which undergirds,
guides, and sustains that life. You may have to dig deep to find it,
but it is always t h e r e . - J O S E P H R. SIZOO, Still We Can Hope
(Abingdon Press)
Efficient as we are in improving our material comfort we seem

less and less capable of providing for our spiritual require-
ments. — G . J . CLARKE, Cambridge (England) Daily News
If I had one year to live I would like to leave this message to

those left behind "Remember that I lived. Forget that I
died." - BERNARD HARRISON, The Quotable American Rabbis,
edited by SAMUEL M. SILVER (Droke House)
Life is a series of experiences. It is a game and the rules of the

game says that you are rewarded according to the way you play
it. - MARCUS BACH, Make It An Adventure (Prentice-Hall)
Life is what you do with what happens. Life is not what you get,
but how you use it. Life is not even what or where you are born. It is
what you become. - WILBUR E. NELSON, The Wesleyan Methodist
Life should be a continuing search for those people, those ideas

and those causes to which we can gladly and wholly give
ourselves. - WILLIAM G. SALTONSTALL,Hoard's Dairyman
The final test of our lives will not be how mucf we have lived but
how we have lived, not how tempestuous our lives have been, but
how much bigger, better and stronger these trial- have left us. Not
how much money, fame or fortune we have laid up here on earth,
but how many treasures we have laid up in heaven. — Megiddo
Message
The first 40 years of life gave us the text; the next 30 supply the
commentary on it. - ARTHUR SCHOPEHNUER, Forbes
. . . the problem of meaninglessness runs amuck in our midst.

Never have we possessed so much and needed so much
m o r e . - G O R D O N PRATT BAKER, In The School of Christ
(Tidings)
The purpose of life is not to be happy —but to Matter, to be

productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you
lived at all. - LEO ROSTEN, Library Journal
The secret of your life and the meaning of your life — its
priorities, its values, its orientation — may be found in what you are
willing t o suffer for: for what purpose or for what
person. - HARRY E. CHASE, Pulpit Digest
The real danger is that we don't have one great loyalty and one
great love at the center of life. — T. CECIL MYERS, Thunder on the
The sense of not belonging to anything real and eternal is the

central insecurity of our time. - E. STANLEY JONES, Victory
Through Surrender (Abingdon Press)
The twentieth-century neurosis is the neurosis of purposelessness,

meaninglessness. — From JOSEPH ROYCE, The Encapsulated Man
Copyright 1965. D. Van Nostrand Co. Inc., Princeton, N.J.
. . . too many well-intentioned people are so preoccupied with

the clatter of effort to do something for God that they don't hear
Him asking that He might do something through them. — THOMAS
R. KELLY, A Testament of Devotion (Harper & Row)
We are a generation possessed by the spector of meaninglessness

which will not be quieted. - W. PAUL JONES, The Recovery of
Life's Meaning (Association Press)
Job 33:4
Ps. 36:9
Prov. 3:5-6
Mt. 6:31-34
Mt. 7:13-14
Mt. 10:39
J n . 14:6
Miscellaneous —
Christ is tearing out the partitions in men's souls between
vocation, church, and home and making a one room dwelling place
for himself in their whole lives. — Quotation from The Taste of New
Wine by KEITH MILLER. Copyright 8-16-65 by Word Books, Waco,
Texas
For life to be full and large it must contain the care of the past
and of the future in every passing moment of the p resent. — JOSEPH
CONRAD, quoted by JOSEPH SETTLER, The Ecology of Faith
(Fortress Press)
From the cradle to the grave man must cope with situational
tension. Learning to walk, getting an education, earning a living,
getting married and rearing a family, undergoing surgery, driving an
automobile, facing death — every life experience has built-in tension
and creates new waves of tension. — WALLACE E. FISHER,
He who would make something of life must eviduate his material,

dream his dream, draw a daring plan, and work at living with mature
diligence. He must start early in life to steward his resources and
invest his precious time. — MILO L. ARNOLD, Herald of Holiness
How many men do we know whose work has aeen scattered and
disipated by too many little interests and too m u c i hesitation. . . . A
little of everything is a sad state of affairs and the disease of gifted
men. Blessed is the man who has made up his mind what he wants to
do and has accepted the discipline to turn his back on everything
that does not put him on his way. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh
If we want to climb to the peaks, we must keep our attention

fixed on the peaks, because we tend to get what we are looking
for. - HAROLD E. KOHN, A Touch of Greatness (Wm. B.
Eerdmans)
Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost

impossibly difficult. - NICHOLAS BENTLEY, Think
Life demands from you only the strength yov. possess. Only one
feat is possible — not to have run away. — DAG HAMMARSKJOLD,
quoted by THOMAS G. O'KEEFE, Ohio Schools
Life is full of surprises. You never can tell at what bend of the
road some new vision may break, some new opportunity may present
itself, or some new friendship may make all the days of your life
forever different. - J O S E P H R. SIZOO, Still We Can Hope (Abing-
don Press)
. . . life is "lent to be spent." - DOUGLAS V. STEERE,

Dimensions of Prayer (Harper & Row)
Life is meant to be lived from a Center, a divine Center. . . .

There is a divine Abyss within us all, a holy Infinite Center, a Heart,
a Life who speaks in us and through us to the world. — THOMAS R.
KELLEY,yl Testament of Devotion (Harper & Row)
Life is not money to be spent as taste and whim direct but like
precious gold entrusted to our care. — D. M. CAMPBELL, Cambridge
(England) News
Life is the gift of God but it is capital that must be spent or it

dissipates. - CHARLES TEMPLETON, Life Looks Up (Harper &
Row)
No man who continues to add something to the material,

intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left
long without proper reward. - BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Dis-
tilled Wisdom, edited by ALFRED A. MONTAPERT (Prentice-Hall)
One of the prominent symptoms of our times . . . is loneliness.

Isn't it ironic that in an age of the greatest population explosion the
world has ever known, more people are desperately lonely than ever
before? . . . Loneliness is one of the desperate problems of our
age. - PAUL LITTLE, How To Give Your Faith Away (Inter-Varsity
Press)
Perils there are. But perils are not in themselves omens of defeat.
They are warnings of danger, the very awareness of which can
contribute to victory.
The greatest danger of all is to be conscious of none. — W. T.
PURKISER, Herald of Holiness
Remember . . . that failures and disappointments belong to the

changing fortunes of every man and woman. Amoig the wise men of
India there is a legend that when God was equipping man for his life
journey, the attending angel was about to add t i e gift of content-
ment and complete satisfaction. The Infinite Mine stayed the angel's
hand. " N o , " He said. "If you give him that, you w.ll rob him for ever
of the joy of self-discovery." - J O H N K. WILLI.VMS, The Wisdom
of Your Subconscious Mind (Prentice-Hall)
The attitude that turns a man into a mere bystander has no

encouragement from Christianity. Living is too serious a matter to be
treated as anything less than a call for a full-time response on our
part. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh Every Morning (Harper & Row)
The good life is a process, not a state of being. — CARL F.

ROGERS, On Becoming a Person (Houghton Mifflin)
The history of the human race has again and again turned on a
single s o u l , a n d w h a t seemed at the time a mere
incident. - MYRTLE BARKER, / ,4m Only One (The Bobbs-Merrill
Co.)
There is an unseen battlefield in every human heart, where two

opposing forces meet and where they seldom part. It is inherent in
the scheme of things that we experience this incessant inner battle.
What matters is which force, which self, triumphs. — NORMAN
VINCENT PEALE
. . . the three major choices of life are: a mate, a mission, and a

master; a mate — someone to love, a mission — something to do, a
master - someone to follow. - J. WALLACE HAMILTON, My Call
To Preach, Edited by GERALD O. McCULLOH (Tidings)
The weakness of our time is that people are no longer excited

about the joy of living. - K. MORGAN EDWARDS, More Than
Survival (Abingdon Press)
There is a major theme in every man's life. Everything you do in

your life is a variation on it. - PRESTON BRADLEY quoted by
HAL HIGDON, Isaak Walton Magazine
They are wrong who say that life begins at a certain age. A new
life begins each day. The night is a curtain between the past and the
present. The break of day lifts the curtain on a new life, a new
opportunity to strive and to achieve. — LEIGH M. HODGES,
Nuggets
"Until" is the one word in common in all the biographies of

victorious men and women who have had the persistence and the
courage to see life through to the end and to turn life's darkest hours
into life's finest hours. — LANCE WEBB, On the Edge of the Absurd
(Abingdon Press)
We have developed the habit of insulating ourselves against life's

shocks, padding life's jagged corners, and drugging ourselves to life's
aches and pains. We just cannot bring ourselves to face up to the fact
that life is a rough-and-tomble, "outrageous game." — HARRY E.
MOORE, JR., Pulpit Digest
Gen. 2:7
Ps. 16:11
Lk. 12:15
Lk. 12:22-30
James 4:14
LOVE
Compassion —
Did you ever take a real trip down inside the broken heart of a
friend? To feel the sob of the soul — the raw, red crucible of
emotional agony? To have this become almost as much yours as that
of your soul crushed neighbor?
Then, to sit down with him — and silently weep? This is the
beginning of compassion. — Quotation from Don't Miss It If You
Can by JESS MOODY. Copyright 6-30-65 by Word Books, Waco,
Texas.
Love requires action. You can tell how much a man cares by
what he is willing to do. — T. CECIL MYERS, Thunder on the
One of the finest and truest definitions of sympathy is

"Sympathy is your pain in my heart." - HALFORD E. LUCCOCK,
High Points
The power of love or sympathy is never exhausted by use; it

shrivels because of self-protection. — The War Cry
Lk. 24:12
J n . 15:12-13
IJn.3:l
Hate -
A noted doctor has listed several emotions which produce disease
in human beings. Heading the list is fear, followed by frustration,
rage, resentment, hatred, jealousy, envy, self-centeredness, and
ambition. The one and only antidote that can save men from
these . . . is love. — Cadle Call
Envy first poisons the heart in which it is born and then breeds
vindictive action toward its victim. - ALICE CRONE TWILLEY,
Except Ye Have Love (Tidings)
Hate hurts the hater as well as the hated, but i: keeps a person so
intent upon seeing and punishing the evil in another that one is
oblivious to what: is happening to oneself. — HAROLD E. KOHN, A
Touch Of Greatness (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
Hate is a prolonged form of suicide. — DOUGLAS V. STEERE,

Dimensions of Prayer (Harper & Row)
If we could only see hatred and despising for what they are,
cankers of the soul, and substitute for them the deliberate pursuit of
loving kindness and trust, we should be astonished to find how
quickly the moral atmosphere and, with it, the content and
happiness of mankind would improve. — ARTHUR BRYANT, Illus-
trated London News
Hatred is blindness, self-imposed. - HAROLD E. KOHN, A

Touch of Greatness (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
It may be infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to

forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion, the
latter is the heart's choice. It is spiritual murder, the worst, to hate,
to brood over the feeling that excludes the idea of the
hated. - GEORGE MacDONALD, The Wesleyan Methodist
Hatred is a vicious boomerang that, when thrown, gathers

momentum and returns to injure the person who uses it, destroying
his health and happiness. - HAROLD E. KOHN, A Touch of
Greatness (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
One of the most expensive luxuries one can possess is to hate

somebody. A deep seated grudge in one's life eats away at his peace
of mind like a deadly cancer destroying a vital organ of life. — E. T.
WAYLAND, Arkansas Methodist
The next time you get angry with someone remember the words
of Booker T. Washington, who said: "I shall never permit myself to
stoop so low as to hate any m a n . " - J O S E P H CRESSCIMBENI,
Education
The tragedy of war and of individually disliking any human being

is not so much in the harm done to the other person as in the harm
to ourselves. - J O E E. WALKER, Together
What envy can't have it belittles or derides. It is the great leveller;

if it can,'t level things up, it levels them down. — ROBERT J.
McCRACKEN, What Is Sin? What Is Virtue? (Harper & Row)
Hatred is an emotion that makes a monkey of man. The object of

hatred is destruction. — HAROLD E. KOHN, A Touch of Greatness
(Wm. B. Eerdmans)
Mt. 5:43-46
Lk. 6:27
Miscellaneous —
A midwestern school teacher tells of two small boys in her class
who had the same name but who were very different in appearance.
When asked if they were brothers, one said: "Yes, but one of us is
adopted, and I forget which one." . . . the parents of those two boys
demonstrate . . . what real love is. - BRUCE LARSON, Setting Men
Free © 1967 by Zondervan. Used by Permission.
A young man once fell in love with a girl. . . . He bought a ring to

give her, but he was poor and it wasn't a very big diamond. He said
to her apologetically: "It is not a very big stone." But she
replied: "It is as big as we make it." . . . The important things in life
can be made bigger with every passing year if we remember that they
have to be gathered fresh every day. - GERALD KENNEDY, Pulpit
Digest
Be a spendthrift in love! Love is the one treasure that multiplies

by division: it is the one gift that grows bigger the more you take
from it. It is the one business in which it pays to be an absolute
spendthrift: give it away, throw it away, splash it over, empty your
pockets, shake the basket, turn the glass upside down, and tomorrow
you will have more than ever. — Watchman-Examiner
By the law of love, above every other law, mer ought to live. It
provides the constraining dynamic for spiritual and moral achieve-
ment. God gave the law and to live by it is to live or the highest level
of human experience. — CLIFTON J. ALLEN, Poiits for Emphasis
(Broadman Press)
Christian charity knows no iron curtain. — Christian Century
God's last word to man in man's uttermost extremity, is a word

of love. — MAX WARREN, Interpreting the Cross (SCM Press)
In the arithmetic of the stomach, half a loaf may be better than

none; but in the calculus of the heart, half a love is incomparably
worse than none. — SYDNEY HARRIS, Courtesy Chicago Daily
News and Publisher's-Hall Syndicate.
Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against

l o v e . - M A R T I N LUTHER KING, JR., Progressive, Used by
Permission.
Loneliness is not a matter of isolation but insulation. Lonely

people build walls around themselves and then complain of their
loneliness. If we are in love with no one but ourselves, we soon find
ourselves hating ourselves. Loneliness spurs us to give our love to
others that love may return to us. - GASTON FOOTE, How God
Helps (Abingdon Press)
Love as sentimental affection is not enough to change a

Napoleon or anyone else into a being who cares responsibly for
others. - LANCE WEBB, On the Edge of the Absurd (Abingdon
Press)
Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face
of all life's hazards, save one - neglect. - JAMES D. BRYDEN,
Presbyterian Life
Love is a force to be released, not a vacuum to be filled. — E. D.

HULSE, Quote
Love is miraculous, but not magical. Its requirements are plainly

set forth in the Bible. Earthly marriages are not made in heaven, but
heavenly marriages are made on earth. — GEORGE E. SWEAZY, In
Holy Marriage (Harper & Row)
Love is the by-product of our capacity to give what is deepest

within ourselves and to receive what is deepest within another
person. - LLOYD J. AVERILL, "Sexuality In Crisis," Christian
Century, 10-2-63
Love is the death of indifference and the acknowledgement of

differences. - PAUL BOESE, Quote
Man's elemental need for acceptance, understanding, and love has
haunted every generation in human history. The early Christians
established a beachhead in the Roman world because they out-loved,
out-gave, and out-died their pagan contemporaries. — WALLACE E.
FISHER, Preaching and Parish Renewal {Abingdon Press)
One of the tragedies of American life is that love is being defined

for us by those who have never experienced it. — W. NORMAN
MacFARLANE, Christianity Today, By Permission
The lonliest place in the world is the human heart when love is
absent. - ROBERT OZEMENT, Happy Is The Man . . . (Fleming H.
Revell)
There is no word in any language today that deserves more

attention than this little four-letter word love. The extent of its
application in today's world determines the future of mankind. Basic
in every marriage bond, essential in all lasting friendships, necessary
in all relationships — this word holds the key to that brave new world
of which we dream and toward which we strive. — WALLACE
FRIDY, Devotions For Adult Groups (Abingdon Press)
. . . there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of a

love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of
love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of etern-
ity. - HELEN HAYES, Guideposts
The tragedy of love is indifference. - WILLIAM SOMERSET

MAUGHAM, The Trembling of a Leaf (Heinemann) Permission
Granted By A.P. Watt 8c Son as Literary Agents to the estate of W.
Somerset Maugham.
The very term "fall in love" is deceptive. We never fall into

anything that is truly great. Real love is the gift of God, but it is
bestowed only on those who have shown that they can use it. None
of God's finest gifts is simply handed out. Joy, forgiveness, strength,
a happy marriage — these are all gifts of grace which we cannot earn,
but can receive only by fulfilling the conditions. — GEORGE E.
SWEAZEY, In Holy Marriage (Harper & Row)
We are like photographic negatives; the full personality, the
image of God, is latent and will not be developed until it is exposed
to love. - GEORGE SWEAZEY, In Holy Marriage (Harper & Row)
We are so made that if we do not love we perish. What the law of

gravity is to the sun and the stars love is to every human being. It is
the profoundest practical need of mankind. — ROBERT J .
Jer. 31:3
Mt. 5:43-46
Lk. 6:35
J n . 3:16
Jn.13:35
Rom. 12:9-10
I Cor. 13
Gal. 5:22
I Thess. 4:9
Heb. 13:1
I Pet. 1:22
IJn.4:7
MAN
Do you know what makes man the mosi: suffering of all

creatures? It is that he has one foot in the finite and the other in the
infinite, and that he is torn between two worlds. — ANONYMOUS
Each of us is made up of two parts — what we are and what we

may become . . . Our concern should be not so much with what we
now are, but what under God we may become. It is not so much the
actuality today but the potentiality of tomorrow with which we are
concerned. —WALLACE FRIDY, Meditations for Adults (Abingdon
Press)
Even though our age is not particularly creative, at least we

cannot reproach it for lacking lucidity. It knows (and in this
discernment there is a courageousness) that it has a task which
eclipses all others; to reconstruct man himself. — ROGER MEHL,
Images of Alan (John Knox Press)
If there is anything that modern man regards as infinite, it is no

longer God; nor is it nature, let alone morality or culture; it is his
own power. - GUNTHERS ANDERS, Dissent
It is no good for man to seek escape in luniks and rocketry and

leave his soul morally earthbound among the television sets and
expresso bars. - PRINCE PHILIP. From the Book The Wit of Prince
Philip, compiled by PETER BUTLER. Copyright 1965 by Leslie
Frewin of London. Published by Hawthorn Books, Inc., 70 Fifth
Ave., N.Y., N.Y. 10011
Let us remember that everyone has in him something precious

that is in no one else. — RUTH THOMAS, Reprinted By Permission
from the November, 1966, issue of The Clearing House
Manhood is a responsibility to become . . . Human nature is not

something with which we are born, a fact, like a stone or an animal.
To be human is to struggle to maintain tht becoming of a
m a n . . . Forever do we need to be working to prevent being
d e h u m a n i z e d . - J O S E P H HAROUTUNIAN que ted by LANCE
WEBB, On the Edge of the Absurd (Abingdon Press)
Man is a peculiar, puzzling paradox, groping for God and hoping

to hide from Him at the self-same time. — WILLIAM ARTHUR
WARD, Ward's Words
Modern man wouldn't live with God; now he can't live with
himself. - E. STANLEY JONES, Conversion (Abingdon Press)
No man has a right to leave the world as he found it. He must

add something t o ' i t ; either he must make its people better or
happier, or he must make the face of the world more beautiful or
fairer to look at. — EDWARD BOK, Personnel Administration
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note
do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sor-
rows. - CHARLES READE, quoted by ROBERT KEIGHTON,
Lamps for the Journey (Abingdon Press)
Numeralism is making man nameless, faceless, and meaning-

less. - HAZEN G. WERNER, The Bible and the Family (Abingdon
Press)
Since man cannot help seeking the infinite, he now seeks the
meaning of his life in an infinity of things. — EMIL BRUNNER, The
Divine Imperative (First published in Great Britain by Lutterworth
Press, London) From The Divine Imperative by Emil Brunner.
Translated by Olive Wyon. The Westminister Press. Copyright, 1947,
by W. L. Jenkins. Used By Permission
The ancients in their fear and awe turned to their gods. The
modems, at least many, turn to their laboratories. —JOHN R.
HALUM, Of Test Tubes and Testaments (Augsburg) Reprinted By
Permission of Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
Copyright Owners.
The human stuff we have at our disposal may not be good

enough. We need new men with new spirits. — GERALD KENNEDY,
Pulpit Digest
The only conquests which are permanent, and leave no regrets,

are our conquests over ourselves. — Quote
The only hope in the human situation is that the 'religiousness'

of men finds its true center in God, and not in the many idols that
appear in the course of our experience. If men are to forget
themselves enough to share with each other, tc be honest under
pressure, and to be rational and moral enough to establish commun-
ity, they must have some center of loyalty and devotion, some
source of security and meaning, beyond their own wel-
fare. - LANGDON GILKEY, Shantung Compound (Harper & Row)
The products of man which time has proven most durable have
been his heroic conduct, his inspirations and his ideas, all of which
are spiritual. - HAROLD E. KOHN, Thoughts Afield (Wm. B.
Eerdmans)
The purpose of man, the way to personal fulfillment, is to be a

partner with God in supervising, maintaining, extending, and
perfecting the creation. For this task, God has provided us the tools
of intellect, a sense of beauty, an understanding of love, compassion,
and the talent of creativity. Man alone in the creation has
these. - C. W. DUNCAN, Pulpit Digest
The sacredness of a person represents an unchanging and eternal

fact with which we must come to terms . . . Persons are final values
in this world, and if we deny it, ill fares the land. — GERALD
The thing that matters about a man's work is not the pay he gets
but the kind of man he becomes. - RALPH L. MURRAY, The Other
Dimension (Broadman Press)
The truly wise are always simple — simple friendliness, simple

decency, simple good-will between man and man. It is the little mind
that spins complications. — EUGENE P. BERTIN, Pennsylvania
School Journal
Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate stresses and
strains, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great
engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge or the machine
should be built at all, where it should be built and when. — EUGENE
G. GRACE, Personnel Administration
Time and again, the face is the index of the soul! — ROBERT J.
McCRACKEN, What Is Sin? What is Virtue? (Harper & Row)
Until we come to terms with what men are, we are in no position

to describe what we may expect from them. — GERALD
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable

of creation, but he does not know what to create. Lord of all things,
he is not lord of himself. He feels lost amid his own abun-
dance. - ORTEGA Y. GASSET, American Opinion
When God measures a man, He puts the tape around the heart
instead of the head. - ANONYMOUS
Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great

Germans, great Englishman? Goethe always protested against being
called a German poet. Great men are simple men. — ALBERT
EINSTEIN
Gen. 1:26-27 Lk. 4:4
Gen. 2:7 Lk. 4:41
Deut. 8:3 I Cor. 11:28
I Sam. 16:7 I Cor. 15:47
J o b 4:17 Gal. 6:3
J o b 7:17 Gal. 6:7
Job 14:1-2 Eph. 3:16
Job 15:14 Eph. 4:24
Ps. 8:4-5 Col. 3:10
Ps. 90:1-17 Heb. 2:6
Ps. 103:15 I Pet. 3:4
Ec. 6:12
Isa 64:8
Mt. 4:4
Mt. 12:45
MARRIAGE
A marriage is not just a contract, a ceremony, a legal compliance;

a marriage is a blending of two lives in such a spiritual way that they
can never be wholly unblended. - HAZEN G. WERNER, The Bible
and The Family (Abingdon Press)
Any marriage in which persons cannot mature as persons is not

ordained of God. It turns into a ghetto of the mind and
spirit. — WALLACE E. FISHER, Preaching and Parish Renewal
(Abingdon Press)
A person who succeeds in marriage is a real success in life

although he may fail in many other- things, while any other success
will hardly comfort one who makes a failure at home. — LELAND F.
WOOD, Harmony in Marriage (Meredith Press)
Effective marriage should kindle noble aspirations in both

marriage partners and in every child born into the home. — MILO
ARNOLD, This Adventure Called Marriage (Beacon Hill Press)
Hardships can strengthen a marriage more than easy times.

Homes may not need more comforts, but they need more comfort-
ing. - GEORGE E. SWEAZEY, In Holy Marriage (Harper & Row)
In a happy marriage, the partners can act as friends as well as

mates. And that kind of rapport appears to be mc re treasured than
other values commonly associated with marital compatibility. When
some 400 couples were asked to rank what they considered
conducive to a satisfying marriage, their first choice was companion-
ship. Being in love was second, followed by being needed, having
children, calmness, financial security, sexual relationships, developing
personal interests, an orderly home, and intellectual stimulation. Last
on the list . . . was good food. — Excerpted By Permission from
Changing Times. Copyright 1966 by the Kiplinger Washington
Editors, Inc.
Many a marriage could have been saved if the couple remembered

this — that their hearts belong to each other, but their souls belong
to God. - LOUIS H. EVANS, Your Marriage — Duel or Duet?
(Fleming H. Revell)
Marriage is not an ownership, but a partnership. — DAVID A.
MacLENNAN, Church Management
Marriage is the Creator's loving provision for mankind's welfare

and happiness. - GEORGE E. SWEAZEY, In Holy Marriage (Harper
&Row)
. . . my first obligation is to my husband and my home. Very

early in marriage, by the time I was 21 or so, I decided there could
be only one star in our family: my husband. I knew I had to do this
if I was going to keep him. - MAMIE EISENHOWER quoted by
VIVIAN G. MILNER, Women's News Service
Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and

God. - T. CECIL MYERS, When Crisis Comes (Abingdon Press)
The relationship between man and woman is something holy and

unchangeable. When we forget this all of our sophistication and
smartness becomes a mere cover for failure and defeat. — GERALD
KENNEDY, Fresh Every Morning (Harper &: Row)
Too many courtships are basically only a process by which two

people become better acquainted with each other's pleasures and
passions, and provide no occasion for knowing each other's deeper
spiritual aspirations, needs or interests. — MILO ARNOLD, This
Adventure Called Marriage (Beacon Hill Press)
Marriage is not the result of love, it is the opportunity for love.

People marry so that they may find out what love is. It is not destiny
that makes a person the one true love, it is life. It is the hardships
that have been faced together. It is bending over children's sickbeds
and struggling with budgets; it is a thousand goodnight kisses and
good-morning smiles; it is vacations at the seashore and conversations
in the dark; it is a growing reverence for each other which comes out
of esteem and love. - GEORGE E. SWEAZY, In Holy Marriage
(Harper 8c Row)
To wed is to bring not only our worldly goods but every

potential capacity to create more values in living together. . . . In
becoming one these two create a new world that had never existed
before. - PAUL E. JOHNSON, Christian Love (Abingdon Press)
When two people, in a dramatic service of divine worship, extend
open and defenseless hands and clasp them together, they are
showing to God and to the world their readiness to learn from each
other the mysterious penetration of real love. — Two Together: A
Handbook For Your Marriage by ROBERT C. DODDS. Copyright
©1962, By the Publishers, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., N.Y.
Gen. 2:18
Mt. 19:5-6
I Cor. 7:33-39
Eph. 5:22-33
Heb.13:4
Divorce is not a happy word like "marriage." Marriage is a word
like a summer dress — full-skirted, bright, sunny. Divorce is a strict
black coat, high-buttoned against the wind. Yet because marriage
happens, divorce also happens. And in the spring morning or a life,
winter comes in a long, black coat. —JUNE WILSON, "Divorce Also
Is Death" Associated Church Press
How many homes have started in romance and ended in

recrimination and wretchedness because neither husband nor wife
had a loyalty higher and more controlling than his or her
desires. - GLENN B. OGDEN, Pulpit Digest
Reno can give you a quick divorce, but Christ can give you a
quick transformation in your home. The temper:; that have flared,
the irritations that are evident, the unfaithfulness that is suspected,
the monotony and boredom of existence, without love can be
changed and transformed in the twinkling of an ey e by faith in Jesus
Christ. - BILLY GRAHAM, The Quotable Billy Graham, edited by
Some authorities blame drink for many of the nearly 400,000

divorces recorded annually. Judge Donald R. Long of the Oregon
Circuit Court says: "A study of 1,000 (divorce) cases reveals liquor
involved in approximately 40 per cent." - HORACE E. CHAND-
LER, Christianity Today, By Permission
Where both parties to marriage are Christians, divorce is not

thought of even as a possibility, for they have resources of spiritual
power sufficient to keep their vow. — SYDNEY CAVE, The Chris-
tian Way (Philosophical Library)
Mt. 5:32-32
Mt. 19:9
Mk. 10:11-12
Rom. 7:1-3
MORALS
A child has a right to a heritage of moral fitness. — HAZEN G.

A group of concerned parents called on the proprietor of a store

across the street from an elementary school and asked the man to
remove pinball machines on which children were spending their
lunch money. The owner, who was a nominal church member,
admitted that the presence of the machines was bad but con-
cluded: "I will remove them only if you get all ray competitors in
town to remove such machines from thier business establishments."
What that man was saying, among other things, was that money was
the supreme concern of his life and that his own standards of
conduct were going to be determined by competition rather than by
any principle of right and wrong. - RALPH A. PHELPS, JR.,
Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine
By and large there is no youth problem as much as there is a

middle age problem. . . . (Parents must) recover their own standards
so that the young will have something to steer by. i^ack of real values
among parents is one of the foremost cause: of child delin-
quency. - HERBERT HAMILTON, quoted in The Sunday School
Times
By the visual flaunting of indecency, the word pictures of

obscenity, there has been created a climate of degeneracy which is
causing havoc in almost every country in the v orld, and no one
seems to understand why or what to do about it. The old controls
are largely gone. The moral standards of our age ;ire dragging in the
s l i m e . - J A M E S W. KENNEDY, Minister's Shop-Talk (Harper &
Row)
From the dawn of moral consciousness we do not find it equally

as easy to be true to our duty and to be false to it. . . . Movement
toward moral perfection is upstream. — HAROLD DE WOLF,
Theology of the Living Church (Harper & Row)
For us one of the saddest days in life is the day we allow the
herd-fear to conquer the highest judgments and instincts of the
soul. - E. STANLEY JONES, Victorious Living (Abingdon Press)
I am more concerned with mini-morals than I am with
mini-skirts. - BILLY GRAHAM, The Quotable Billy Graham, edited
by CORT R. FLINT (Droke House)
. . . I do not believe there is any such thing as a new morality,

and so far as morals are concerned, the same kind of behavior which
brought the downfall of Greece or Rome will bring the downfall of
America or Russia. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh Every Morning
(Harper & Row)
If I were to choose the three virtures that summarize moral

excellence — my first choice would be social conscience, or sense of
moral responsibility. My second would be courage, the courage of
one's convictions, the courage to nonconform. The third would be
truth, or honesty, or faith in the triumph of virtue. — ADLAI
STEVENSON, Reprinted With Permission From Ladies Home
Journal, 12-61
If our standards are low, if this juvenile crime continues and

people get so absorbed in the material side of life, then it is the
beginning of the end. . . . It wasn't the barbarians that destroyed
Rome^ it was the _ decline in the character of the RomarT
p e o p k T ^ R O B E R T E . WOOD, Nation's Business
It is not guided missiles but guided morals that is our great need
today. - GEORGE L. FORD, The Wesleyan Methodist
It may be agreed that people are not made moral by being denied
a chance to sin; but the rest of the story is that people can be made
immoral by being stimulated to it. - GEORGE E. SWEAZEY, In
Modern man is naked. He has been stripped by false prophets

who told him that his old clothes of morality were out of date. Now,
none of the new suits he puts on can cover his nakedness; moreover,
they give him considerable discomfort. - FULTON J. SHEEN, The
(Droke House)
Morality and ethics are based upon biological necessity imposed

upon living things that live in common, depend on each other, and
cannot survive without the help of each other. In other words, no
organism can survive and function well, without a certain set of rules
which, in the case of man, have evolved into morality. — RENE
DUBOS, The American Scholar
Morality cannot be bought. It cannot be manufactured. It cannot

be borrowed. It cannot be mined. It cannot be discovered in our
atomic laboratories. It can only be cultivated like seeds planted in
fertile soil. It can only be nurtured in the assemblies of
praver. — RICHARD C. HERTZ, The Quotable American Rabbis,
Morals without God become demonic. — LANCE WEBB, On the

Edge of the Absurd (Abingdon Press)
One of the most disturbing things we face is bright young people

with every material advantage who are morally sick. — GERALD
Sex fanatics are not only nonreligious persons, but usually

antfreligious persons. It is curious to hear such men urge that we
ought to repudiate Christian morality and develop a new ethics to
suit the unethical lives of a few thousand individuals they have
polled. Because statisticians can find 5,000 living carnal lives, it is
s u g g e s t e d that their ideal shall be made the universal
ideal. - FULTON J . SHEEN, The Quotable Fulton J. Sheen, edited
by FREDERICK GUSHURST (Droke House)
Somewhere along the way we have lost something, the very

something that gives directions, sets standards, and puts goals before
u s . - T . CECIL MYERS, Thunder On The Mountain (Abingdon
Press)
Lust is a master of alluring disguises. - GEORGE E. SWEAZEY,

In Holy Marriage (Harper & Row)
The "old morality" is not to be prized because it is old, but

because it is right. It has behind it the testimonies of multitudes of
earth's happiest and best people, whose lives have made the
maximum contribution to the ongoing of humanity. — W. T.
The greatest enemy of life is lust, which wants to get something

for itself and employs the other as a means of satisfying this
want. - DR. BOVER quoted by GEORGE E. SWEAZEY, In Holy
Marriage (Harper & Row)
The people of our nation and the people of the whole world need
to be gripped by the moral imperatives which grow out of the nature
of God, by a sense of right, by principles of truth, and by ideals of
decency. Nothing is more needed by this sinful world than a revival
of simple goodness and genuine uprightness. — CLIFTON J. ALLEN,
Points for Emphasis (Broadman Press)
The principles of the moral life are embedded in the very

structure of reality. They do not change with every passing fad of
men. - W. T. PURKISER, Herald of Holiness
There is no individual Christian ethic. . . . God's command places

us in relation to our neighbor, not to ourselves. — EMIL BRUNNER,
The Divine Imperative (First Published in Great Britain by Lutter-
worth Press, London) From The Divine Imperative by Emil Brunner,
Translated by Olive Wyon. The Westminister Press. Copyright 1947.
By W. L. Jenkins. Used By Permission
The right thing morally is always the healthy thing economically.

From the international down through the sociological, the economic,
the physical, back to the moral and spiritual — all up and down the
gamut of life — the Christian thing is the healthy thing. This is the
central fact in the world today. - E. STANLEY JONES, Sunshine
Magazine
To train a man mentally without training him morally is to make

him a menace to society. - THEODORE ROOSEVELT quoted by
JOSEPH R. SIZOO, Still We Can Hope (Abingdon Press)
We have drifted away from God on the barge of indecency

and unrespectability. - ROBERT OZEMENT, Happy Is the
Man . . . (Fleming H. Revell)
We need to remind ourselves that we becorre a part of what we
tolerate. - HAZEN G. WERNER, The Bible and the Family (Abing-
don Press)
Whenever rnorals go, faith will go, too; for they are strangely and
inextricably bound together. - K . MORGAN EDWARDS, More Than
Suri'ival (Abingdon Press)
Ex. 20:1-17
Job 31:1-40
Ps. 15:1-5
Ps. 24:3-5
Ps. 51:1-19
Prov. 3:3-4
Prov. 4:23
Prov. 4:25-27
Prov. 28:20
Mt. 5 : 1 - 7 : 2 9
Lk. 16:10
Phil. 4:8
POLITICAL EXTREMISM
Extremes alway generate their opposites. There is a "pendulum

effect" built into the very structure of humanity. — W. T. PUR-
KISER, Herald of Holiness
Extremists usually justify themselves as guardians against the

other extreme. Thus Communists call themselves anti-Fascists, while
the reactionaries refer to themselves as anti-Communists. — DON
ROBINSON, Phi Delta Kappan
One of the most dangerous signs of our times is the rise of

self-styled vigilantes, who, posing as protectors of our freedom, have
taken it upon themselves to condemn others without a hearing. This
plays directly into the hands of the Communists.—J. R.
SAUNDERS, The Challenge of World Communism in Asia (Wm. B.
Eerdmans)
Perhaps the history of all political persecution is summed up on

L. H. Robbins' witty quatrain of many years ago: "How a minority,
Reaching majority, Seizing a u t h o r i t y , Hates a
minority!" - SYDNEY HARRIS, Courtesy Chicago Daily News and
Publisher's-Hall Syndicate
The fanatic thinks he can oppose the power of evil with the
purity of a principle. But like the bull, he thrusts at the red cloth
instead of the one who carries it, grows tired, and is defeated. He
becomes entangled in nonessentials and falls into the trap of the one
who is cleverer than he is. - DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, I Loved
This People (John Knox Press)
Why do conservatives talk so much about being anti-Communist?

For the same reason spinsters talk so much about being
virgins. - ERIC THOMPSON, Esquire
POVERTY
There has always been poverty in the world, but there is a

difference today. In other generations, people accepted their
poverty; today they do not. In the past, they did not know they
were poor; today they know it; they feel it; t i e y insist that the
poorest of them has the same right to be an rich as the rich
nations. — FULTON J . SHEEN, Portraits in a Darkened Forest
(Meredith Press)
Achieving the Great Society depends not only upon the

eradication of economic and educational deprivation from our
culture. Of equal significance is a "poverty of spirit" that could
invade all segments of our society unless its children see themselves
as contributing, intelligent people with potentialities to be developed
fully because the world needs them just as they need the strengths of
other people. — NORMA R. LAW, Young Children
In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed

of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed
of. — Speech Sparker No. 20 (Droke House)
In the United States poverty is not a matter of the absence or

under-development of resources or of skills to harness those
resources in order to feed, clothe, house and educate everyone; here
the issue is whether the institutions and citizens which are
prosperous are morally m a t u r e enough to banish
poverty. - WILLIAM STRINGFELLOW, "Povery, Piety, Charity
and Mission" Christian Century 5-10-61
One of the main reasons for so much "senseless" violence in the
slum society is not merely the poverty and bleakness of the physical
and economic environment. It is often the brightest and most
potentially talented slum youngsters who become the leaders in gang
violence; they are the little Napoleons who do not know what to do
with their gifts except divising ways to retaliate against the social
order. - SYDNEY HARRIS, Courtesy Chicago Daily News and
Publisher's-Hall Syndicate
When every child in America has a good education, poverty and

prejudice and the extremes of disadvantage will disappear in precisely
one generation. - W. WILLARD WIRTZ,
Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is a state of mind. And it is

a contagious disease. Parents give it to their children. — CHARLES
A. CERAMI, Reprinted from Woman's Day Magazine Copyright
©1965 by Fawlett Publications, Inc.
Poverty of the mind and of the spirit may well be a far greater
social evil than the poverty that can be remedied by dollars alone.
That part of our population — and it is a large one with a wide range
of incomes — which has no cultural resources, nor interest in ideas,
beauty or creativity, is the truly poverty-striken. — Social Studies
Real poverty is not a matter of being moneyless. The poor of the

world are the loveless, the thoughtless, the restless and hopeless, the
joyless. - HAROLD E. KOHN, A Touch of Greatness (Wm. B.
Eerdmans)
When we've won (the war on poverty), you won't see

slums. - R. SARGENT SHRIVER
The great challenge that the war against poverty poses for the
churches is the challenge to commit themselves to the goal of a new
society with something more than rhetoric and Christian idealism.
That "something more" is nothing less than the will to engage in
whatever action is necessary to help the powerless acquire the social
power that will enable them to protect their interest, their integrity,
and their human dignity in the councils of communal decision-
making. - W. ASTOR KIRK, Concern
The have-nots lie bleeding along the road, and the haves are
passing them by on their way to church. — THC MAS J. MULLEN,
The Ghetto of Indifference (Abingdon Press)
There is an uneasy sense of the wrongr.ess of things and

uncertainty over how to right them. Surely Christianity has a
dramatic word to say on the rightful prior: ties of a worthy
civilization, including the elimination of pockets of poverty and
racial discrimination and the promotion of public righteous-
ness. — CARL F. H. HENRY, Christianity Today By Permission
The war on poverty can only be won when each man and
woman, black and white alike, dedicates himsel to a cause greater
than himself. - DEBORAH P. WOLF, Journal cf Negro Education
Winter '65, Vol. XXXIV, p . 92
To most people there is a dichotomy between 'we, the

Americans' and 'they, the poor.' - SARGENT SHRIVER
We want to make sure that every family in America lives in a

home of dignity, in a neighborhood of pride, a community of
opportunity and a city of promise and hope. — LYNDON B.
JOHNSON
. . . the world will not live in harmony so leng as two-thirds of

its inhabitants find difficulty in living at all. — U. THANT
Ps. 9:18 Prov. 13:7 Isa. 3:15
Ps. 41:1 Prov. 17:5 Amos 2:6
Prov. 6:11 Prov. 19:17 Mt. 5:3
Prov. 10:15 Prov. 30:8 J n . 12:8
PRAYER
A daily look at the Highest and Best puts all other values in their
proper place. - HAROLD E. KOHN, A Touch of Greatness (Wm. B.
Eerdmans)
A grateful thought is a perfect prayer. — Guideposts
Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in

your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation.
Nothing else is worth praying for. - SAMUEL SHOEMAKER,
Extraordinary Living for Ordinary Men 1965 by Zondervan, Used by
Permission
God, teach us to take advantage of the opportunities offered

us — not the people offering them. — Guideposts
Harry Denman had a way of going up to perfect strangers and

asking them to pray for him. In a big department store he once said
to a strange saleslady, "Will you pray for m e ? "
"Yes," she replied, "What kind of trouble are you in?" We do
not think we have to pray — we do not think we need God — until
life devastates us. - ARTHUR J. MOORE, Fight On! Fear Not!
(Abingdon Press)
He who fails to pray does not cheat God, he cheats him-

self. - GEORGE FAILING, The Wesleyan Methodist
In prayer, the seeds of concern have a way of appearing. Often

enough, a concern begins in a feeling of being personally liable,
personally responsible, for someone or some event. — DOUGLAS V.
STEERE, Dimensions of Prayer (Harper & Row)
A look at bigger things should be a daily habit, and would cure

many of us of our fretfulness over trifles. We would be less irritable,
less captious, if we would lift our attention to eternal things and to
the Eternal One, and thus correct our perspective. — HAROLD E.
KOHN,yl Touch of Greatness (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
It is in prayer that we have the renewing of our strength. Here is

the soul's blood transfusion. It is the spirit's "Geritol." — PAUL S.
REES, The Wesleyan Methodist
It is in the sanctuary of prayer that desperate men become
confident men. - KERMIT R. OLSEN, The Magnitude of Prayer
(Fleming H. Revell)
. . . man's central problem is spiritual, to be solved on his knees,

not in a laboratory. - ANDREW W. BLACKWOOD, JR., The Holy
Spirit In Your Life (Baker Book House)
One of the blessings of prayer is that it brings to us resources

from the other world to enable us to cope with the problems and
temptations and difficulties of this one. — WILLIAM T. McELROY,
Christian Observer
Prayer at its highest is grateful when God gives, and restful when
He withholds. - W. T. PURKISER, Herald of Holiness
. . . prayer calls for domestic mutations; not for leaving home, or

post, or present companions, but for living differently among
them. - DOUGLAS V. STEERE, Dimensions of Prayer (Harper &
Row)
Prayer channels divine pardon, peace, and power into man's

erring, strife-ridden, fragmented existence. — WALLACE E. FISHER,
Prayer digs the channels from the reservoir of God's boundless

resources to the tiny pools of our lives. — E. STANLEY JONES, The
Christ of Every Road (Abingdon Press)
Prayer for us is not the bending of God's will to ours, not asking
favors as if He were a child's Santa Claus, but ihe opening of our
spirits to God, so that we may understand his purposes. It is not
asking God to change his world to suit our own selfish desires, nor
giving God his orders for the day. . . . Prayer is essentially relating
and adjusting ourselves to God and his purposes. — WALLACE
FRIDY, Meditations for Adults (Abingdon Press)
Prayer is not a mirror in which we look at oc rselves. It is a glass

through which we look at God, and beyond Him to the world and its
needs. - GASTON FOOTE, How God Helps (Abir gdon Press)
Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to
Satan. — Nazarene Preacher
Prayer is a therapy for the spirit as well as a channel for the

release of God's power in "changing things." - W. T. PURKISER,
Herald of Holiness
Prayet is a threat to the continued enthronement of our

egocentric goals and there is a massive resistence in us to continued
prayer. - DOUGLAS V. STEERE, Dimensions of Prayer (Harper &
Row)
. . . prayer is limited by God's righteousness and majesty and

love. He cannot do evil; he will not run errands; he declines to give
man hurtful things. - WALLACE E. FISHER, Preaching and Parish
. . . prayer is not an exercise in outwitting God's opposition and

reluctance but is the process of learning to cooperate with his plan
for our highest good. - EMERSON S. COLAW, The Way of the
Master (Abingdon Press)
Prayer is not investigation, it is experience. Prayer is not a

shopping list in the supermarket of the universe. We should not pray,
"Help me to win," but rather "Help me to live." - DAVID POLISH,
American fudaism
Prayer is for the religious life what original research is for

science. - quoted by DOUGLAS V. STEERE, Dimensions of Prayer
(Harper & Row)
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of His

willingness. Prayer is not talking God into doing something He
doesn't want to do; it is rather giving Him the moral right to do what
He has been wanting to do for a long time. — From Invitation to
Discipleship by MYRONS S. AUGSBURGER. Copyright 1965 by
Herald Press. Used by Permission.
Prayer is practiced inside.a dependable universe which is under

God's active control. - WALLACE E. FISHER, Preaching and Parish
Prayer is resting for a while in God's greatness. — HAROLD E.
KOHN, Thoughts Afield (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
. . . prayer is the lubricant for all of life. - W. T. PURKISER,

Herald of Holiness
Prayer is the prelude to peace, the prologue to power, the preface

to purpose, and the pathway to perfection. — WILLIAM A. WARD
Prayer is the work I do that lasts the longesl and produces the
most good results. - NELS F. S. FERRE, God's New Age (Harper &
Row)
Prayer may not save us from perils and trials, but prayer will
make us worth saving. - ABRAHAM J . HESCHEL, The Quotable
American Rabbis, edited by SAMUEL M. SILVER (Droke House)
Prayer means warfare and every time we pray we possess more of

the enemy's ground. — MELJOHNSON, Moody Monthly
Prayer of silence is much neglected in these days. Such prayer is

the wireless of the soul. - T. L. VASWANI, "Kindle the Light,"
Self-Realization Magazine, Los Angeles, California.
Prayer opens the shutters of man's dark life and lets in the light
of God. - WALLACE E. FISHER, Preaching and Parish Renewal
(Abingdon Press)
Prayer was never meant to be a crutch for the lazy, but a pattern
of approach for the earnest seeker. — AARON N. MECKEL, Faith
Alive! © 1965 by Zondervan. Used by Permission.
The moment one turns from self to that which is beyond self, he
is praying. - JAMES W. KENNEDY, Minister's Shop-Talk (Harper &
Row)
There is in effect no such thing as selfish prayer; selfish prayer is

stillborn. - MICHAEL WILSON, The Church Is Healing (SCM Press)
The world cannot measure its debt to those who have closeted
themselves with God in expectant prayer. — WALLACE E. FISHER,
'To come near to God is to change' is a cryptic Christian
statement of a great truth. And the most open and vulnerable way at
man's disposal to 'come near to God' is prayer. — DOUGLAS V.
STEERE, Dimensions of Prayer (Harper & Row)
Too often people call on God for guidance and then hang up the
receiver in His face. - WALTER C. ALLMAN, Guideposts
True prayer has to be learnt in life, not just in Church. — A.

GRAHAM IKIN, Victory Over Suffering (Channel Press)
True prayer will bring renewal. - ROBERT SCHULLER, Your

Future Is Your Friend (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
Unless you do a little thinking, and planning, and praying

tonight, you
tonight, you will
will not
not be
be any better tomorrow than you were
todav. —
today. — Sunshine
Sunshine Magazine
Magazine
We waste too many of our prayers praying for the other person
to change, when some really honest prayer for ourselves may do
wonders. - From Dare To Live Now, by BRUCE LARSON, © 1965
by Zondervan. Used by Permission.
When men are so committed to the needs of their own lives and
those of their brethren that their speech becomes urgent and
demanding, prayer will work its miracles. — GERALD KENNEDY,
Pulpit Digest
When prayer is truly prayer, the center has shifted from self and
self-centered interests to unadulterated praise of God, in which I find
my own noblest identity. - RALPH L. MURRAY, The Other
Dimension (Broadman Press)
Worship and prayer never leave us as we are . . . They call us to

t a k e p i l g r i m j o u r n e y s in living, loving, serving, help-
ing . . . - CLARICE M. BOWMAN, Resources for Worship (Associa-
tion Press)
I Sam. 12:23
I l C h r . 7:14
Ps. 55:17
Isa. 16:12
Mt. 5:44
Mt. 6:5-13
Mt. 7:7-8
Mt. 14:23
Mt. 17:21
Mt. 21:13
Mt. 26:41
Mk. 11:24
Mk. 13:33
Mk. 14:38
Lk. 11:1-4
Lk. 16:27
Lk. 18:1
Lk. 21:36
Lk. 22:40
Lk. 22:46
Jn.15:7
Rom. 8:26
I Cor. 7:5
Phil. 4:6
Col. 1:9 1
IThess. 5:17
IIThess. 3:1
James 5:15-16
I Pet. 4:7
'
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RACE RELATIONS
(also, "Brotherhood")
A Jew heard a priest denouncing the Jews vehemently from the

pulpit. So she went to see him afterwards to complain. He was most
apologetic, and assured her that he would not have dreamed of
hurting her for the world. "How was I to know," he said, "that there
was a Jew in the church?"
She replied: "There was one on the cross, you know." — H . J .
RICHARDS, Clergy Review
Black power when it's linked with white power becomes

American power, becomes great power, becomes creating power,
becomes wealth-producing power. — LEON H. SULLIVAN, Nation's
Business
Christians may not see eye to eye, but they can walk arm in
arm. — From Baptist Men's Journal (formerly Brotherhood Journal)
Dr. Arnold Toynbee was asked during an interview what he

considered most important at this time. Toynbee replied: "A high
standard of behavior to each other. Everything depends on
that." - J O H N S. FLANINGAM, The Indiana Freemason
Failure to practice Brotherhood creates the news behind too

many headlines. — RALPH McGILL, Quote
Few of us realize that racism is man's gravest threat to man, the

maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason, the maximum of
cruelty for a minimum of thinking. - ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL, in
an address in Chicago
For segregation, whether enforced legally or by social custom,

was unjust to white persons, too. It kept them away from persons
whom they might have wanted to meet, to know, to love. It kept
them away from their fellow citizens, their fellow humans, their
fellow Christians. Therefore, it kept them away from a part of
themselves. - VINCENT HARDING, Must Walls Divine? (Friendship
Press)
God has endowed all men with rights that may not be violated
and that must be respected. This is everywhere the teaching of the
Bible, and all the major church bodies affirm it in principle. In
principle; but do we put it into practice? What about our
second-class citizens, our ghettoes, our slums? — ROBERT J.
Hate is a funny thing. It does not have a mind. All hate knows to
do is to hate. If I teach my children to hate Negoes, they may end
up hating white people too — and I can't run the lisk of ruining their
lives in that way. — HOWARD THURMAN, The Luminous Darkness
(Harper & Row)
If the average white American put himself i:r the shoes of the
average black American, he would be just as angry, just as prone to
violence as the Negro is today. - ROBERT C. WEAVER, U.S. News
& World Report
If we fail to create strength of character, to practice the law of

love in our relationships, getting to the moon will serve only to
distract our attention from the tragedy of earth. — R. E. GOSSE,
Pulpit Digest
I sought my soul — but soul I could not see; I sought my

God — but my God eluded me; I sought my brother — and found all
three. - ANONYMOUS
Law can create a healthier climate for brotherhood and it can

move us closer to its realization, but brotherhood, like the law of
which the prophet Jeremiah wrote, must be "written upon men's
hearts." - ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG, Department of State Bulletin
Missionaries . . . came to my land teaching the word of God, but

when I attempted to practice their teaching, I was refused the
opportunity in this country. — SAN JERRY ONI, student from
Ghana, on forcibly being removed from a church in.Macon, Ga.
Morally, there has never been "time" for academic discussions on

racial justice. Historically, whatever "time" we Americans have had
has run out. Our overt and covert sins of prejudice and pride and
sloth have found us out. - WALLACE E. FISHER, Preaching and
Parish Renewal (Abingdon Press)
No person is strong enough to carry a cross and a prejudice at the

same time. - WILLIAM A. WARD
On both sides of the colour curtain that divides the modern
world there is a rising reservoir of resentment; of bitter wrongs to be
avenged and of fears, not unjustified, of vengeance and wrath to
come. The brotherhood of mankind is still seen to be as much an
illusion as it was in the days of Cain and Abel. — ARTHUR
BRYANT, Illustrated London News
Prejudice is a wall of fear built on the sands of suspicion

surrounding the city of insecurity. — WILLIAM A. WARD, Quote
Prejudice robs its victim of a fair trial in the court of reason. It

also kills the opportunity of advancement for those who are its
prey. - BILLY GRAHAM, The Quotable Billy Graham, edited by
. . . racism is, a heresy — that is, a belief issuing in a practice

contrary to the true doctrine of the Church of Christ. There are
Christians who denounce theological heresy to whom it apparently
has never occurred that there is such a thing as ethical
heresy. - ROBERT J. McCRACKEN, What Is Sin? What Is Virtue?
(Harper & Row)
Riots do not "just happen." They occur when the time is ripe,
when hopelessness has reached the boiling point, when normal
channels for actualization of hope no longer appear adequate. . . .
Hope can sustain a people by itself only so long. When hope is not
translated into actuality before the hope fades it becomes
despair. — Concern
The black keys and the white keys of the piano of the world
should both be used if man is to play the symphony of God. Out of
the interplay of white keys and black keys together there may come
the music of the future. — E. MERRILL ROOT, American Opinion
The Christian view of man knows no graded scale of essential and

fundamental worth; there is no divine right of whites which differ
from the divine rights of Negroes. - KYLE HASELDEN, The Racial
Problem in Christian Perspective (Harper & Row)
The church which attempts to serve only white persons, even

though the neighborhood around it becomes Negro, is one which in
effect shuts out the community for which it has primary
responsibility. - ROBERT L. WILSON and JAME S H. DAVIS, The
Church in the Racially Changing Community (Abingdon Press)
The failure of the churches to act according to the clear demands

of the gospel of Jesus Christ in the racial crisis in America, more than
any other single factor, has pointed up the religious and moral
bankruptcy of those churches and forces us to recognize the terrible
gap between our pious proclamations and our daily actions as
Christians. - CLYDE REID, The God-Evaders (Haiper & Row)
The happiest Jew in the entire world is the lone Jew in a small
Southern town. To the Gentile community he is "our Jew," and they
guard him like they guard the Confederate monument in the square.
Now "our Negro" is slowly but surely approaching the same happy
status. The Protestant churches of the South now fall over one
another to get a Negro family to join, and when they finally persuade
a Negro to join their fellowship there is a great feeling of pride: "We
are an integrated congregation,suh," they say, "our Negroes are
wonderful people." — HARRY GOLDEN, The Carolina Israelite
The man who fills his heart with prejudice has no time for
expectations, no time to look into the individual heart. For prejudice
is always the product of the lazy mind. It is much easier to
characterize all Jews as sly and mean, all Irishmen as liars, all Negroes
as thieves etc., than it is to look at the individual to see what kind of
a person he is. — W. A. POOVEY, ^4nd Pilate Asked . . . (Augsburg,
1965) Reprinted by Permission of Augsburg Publishing House,
Minneapolis', Minnesota, Copyright Owners.
The prejudiced man lives in a small, selfish world which does not
allow him to experience anything new or strange. — GERALD
The racial ghetto is one of the cancers of ou:' nation. So many

church people contribute to the maintenance of these cancers by
moving away from Negro neighbors and by resisting the integration
of all white communities. It is the good, law-abiding, churchgoing
family that often tacitly assents to the breaking of state fair-housing
laws and looks the other way when Negro families are discouraged
from buying in their neighborhoods. - ROBERT W. SPIKE, Presby-
terian Life
The real evil of segregation is the imposition of self-rejection! It

settles upon the individual a status which announces to all and
sundry that he is of limited worth as a human being. It rings him
round with a circle of shame and humiliation. It binds his children
with a climate of no-accountness as a part of their earliest experience
of the self. Thus it renders them cripples, often for the length and
breadth of their days. - HOWARD THURMAN, The Luminous
Darkness (Harper & Row)
There will be no City Beautiful until we can wipe from the face
of American cities racial bigotry, > , . We live in a series of ghettos,
white ones and black ones. - EDWIN G, BERRY, Architectual
Forum \ Vf . J
The tide of change is running with the Negro American.

. . . Neither the ignorant violence of the (Ku Klux) Klan nor the
despairing of Watts can reverse it. For this tide is moved by decency
and love of justice. It rises in the breast of a people whose mission on
this earth is now what it was at our beginning: To declare and
strengthen the brotherhood of mam - LYNDON B. JOHNSON
The tight skirts of prejudice always shorten the steps of

progress. - Construction Digest
The true Christian philosophy is that no man is an island, ho man

walks alone. We need one another. Life's problems are better solved
together. Man's burdens are made easier to bear when we see one
another as brothers. — DON JENNINGS, Prairie Farmer
The world is filled with tombs that are sealed by the heavy stones
of prejudice and hatred. Think what would happen to these tombs if
there were a rush of adventurous action filled with Easter
hope. - RALPH W. LEOW, Sunshine Magazine
Thousands of Protestants live in a ghetto. Its walls are high, and

they are made of the stuff of culture, custom, rice, and class. The
people who live in this small world are the WASPS — the white,
Anglo-Saxon Protestants of the middle class — and they have little
contact with those outside their ghetto. — THOMAS J. MULLEN,
The Ghetto Of Indifference (Abingdon Press)
To have the same disposition as Christ is to look at another man,

any other, and say "brother" regardless of his race, condition, or
attitude. - J E S S E H. BAIRD, From They Who Are Called Christian
By JESSE H. BAIRD. The Westminster Press, Copyright © 1965,
W. L. JENKINS. Used by Permission.
. . . walls of hate and fear do not fall peacefully or painlessly.

There is much bitterness still to be seen — yet perhaps it is better to
act it out on the sidewalk for all to see than to I ide it behind dark
barricades of revenge. - VINCENT HARDING, Must Walls Divine?
(Friendship Press)
We cannot acclaim the sacredness of a r y man until we

acknowledge the sacredness of all men. — KYLE HASELDEN, The
Racial Problem in Christian Perspective (Harper 8c Row)
We human beings are capable of greater nobility than other

species, but we are also potentially much more vicious. No other
animal can be persuaded to fear and to hate multitudes of his own
kind whom he has never seen. Our hostility is first developed in
childhood against our parents and brothers and sisters . . . . But later
it is deflected aWay, in the form of prejudice, against outsiders. We
are ready to fear and hate people because they are of another tribe or
color or religion or political system. — BENJAMIN P. SPOCK,
Fellowship
Each prejudice we harbor occupies space where God would

anchor more of His love. - WILLIAM A. WARD, Quote
Gen. 4:9
Lev. 19:18
Ps. 133:1
Prov. 3:29
Mt. 5:22
Mt. 5:43
Mt. 19:19
Mt. 23:39
Mk. 12:23
Mk. 12:31
Lk. 10:27
Acts 10:34
Rom. 12:10
Rom. 13:9
Rom. 14:10
Rom. 15:2
Gal. 5:14
Heb.13:1
James 2:8
I J n . 4:20
REPENTANCE
Repentance is not a brooding over the past; it is turning to the

future. - T. CECIL MYERS, When Crisis Comes (Abingdon Press)
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long

as there is sin. — J. C. MAGAULEY, Moody Monthly
Repentance means to look backward and find out where we went

wrong and what we have dismissed that must be accepted. It means
to take a long look forward, and to choose new values and a new
master. - GERALD KENNEDY, Pulpit Digest
The real God is the relentless One who pursues v s and gives us no
peace until our religiousity is transformed by repen :ance. — A. ROY
ECKARDT, "The New Look In American Piety," Christian Century,
11-17-54.
The repentance of the lost son is . . . not something merely

negative. In the last analysis it is not merely disgust; it is above all
homesickness; not just turning away from something; but turning
back home. Whenever the New Testament speaks of repentance,
always the great joy is in the background. It does not say, "Repent
or hell will swallow you u p , " but "Repent, the Kingdom of heaven is
at hand." - HELMUT THIELICKE, The Waiting Father (Harper &
Row)
The sincerity of confession, the change in direction of life, the

degree of hope and love — they all depend upon who we believe
awaits us at the end of the road. — ROBERT BROWN, Alive Again
(Morehouse-Barlow)
Biblical References: Mt. 3:2 Lk. 18:13

Duet. 4:29 Mt. 3:7-8 Acts 2:38
I Kings 8:33-34 Mt. 4:17 Acts 3:9
IlChron. 7:14 Mt. 5:4 Acts 8:22
Ps. 34:18 Mt. 9:13 Acts 17:30
Ps. 51:17 Mk. 1:4 Rom. 2:4
Prov. 28:13 Mk. 1:15 Rom. 14:11-12
Isa. 55:6-7 Mk. 2:17 It Cor. 7:9-10
Isa. 57:15 Lk. 5:32 I In. 1:9
Ez. 14:6 Lk. 15:7
SALVATION
Christianity abides in the world, not to indulge the curiosity of

the human mind, but to answer some lonely and utter cry. — From
The Light of the Cross By S. BARTON BABBAGE © Copyright
1966 by Zondervan. Used by Permission.
Christians come to God not through an idea but a Person. People

don't become Christians because they assent to a series of cold
statements taken out of a Creed. No, they are attracted by a Person;
they find this Person compelling and inescapable; they are haunted
by him and attracted towards him. - HUGH MONTEFIORE, Truth
To Tell (Fontana Books)
Conversion is a revolution in the life of an individual. The old

forces of sin, self-centeredness, and evil are overthrown from their
place of supreme power. Jesus Christ is put on the throne. — BILLY
GRAHAM, Christianity Today, by Permission.
For mankind to know about God isn't enough. Someone must

enter into the Holy of Holies to make atonement; someone must
build back the bridge between God and man; someone must put the
hand of a sinner into the hand of God. That someone is Jesus,
because He is the reconciliation between man and God. — R. EARL
ALLEN, Trials, Tragedies and Triumphs (Fleming H. Revell)
In all other religions, one has to be good to come to God — in

Christianity, one does not. Christianity might be described as a
"come as you are" party. It bids us stop worrying about ourselves,
stop concentrating on our faults and our failings, and thrust them
upon the Saviour with a firm resolve of amendment. — FULTON J.
SHEEN, The Quotable Fulton J. Sheen, edited by FREDERICK
GUSHURST (Droke House)
In order for our lives to bear sacramental service towards God,

we must put to death the things within us that are not of God.
Otherwise they will cause the things that are of God to perish. There
is no alternative; something must die in us — either sin or the life of
God. - IVAN ANSON BEALS, Communion with Christ(© Beacon
Hill Press)
Men marvel at the miracle of a Shakespeare who could take a

blank sheet of paper and turn it into a beautiful love sonnet. Or a
Michelangelo who could chisel a block of stone into a breathtaking
statue. Or a Beethoven who could write a powerful symphony with a
feather from a bird's wing. Yet the greatest miracle of all takes place
when a defeated man finds that, through God's redeeming love, he
can change his life and make a contribution to his fellow
man. — Guideposts
The highest court of justice is in the heart of a man just after the
light of Christ has illumined his motives and all his inner
l i f e . - L E S L I E WEATHERHEAD quoted by HOOVER RUPERT,
Pulpit Digest
There are a lot of ihings we must inherit. But religion is not one
of them. Religion is something that we must experience. Each
generation must do its own experiencing. — JACK B. NORTH, Pulpit
Digest
When God has his chance with people, He turns nobodies into
somebodies. — EARL W. GROLLMAN, The Quotable American
Rabbis, edited by SAMUEL M. SILVER (Droke House)
Ps. 86:13
Isa. 1:18
Isa. 55:6-7
Joel 2:32
Mt. 1:21
Mt. 11:28-30
Mt. 18:3
J n . 3:14-17
Acts 4:12
Rom. 1:14-16
Rom. 3:24
Rom. 5:1-2
Rom. 7:24-25
I Cor. 5:17
Eph. 2:1-5
Heb.7:25
I J n . 4:9-10
SERVICE
As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of

citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with
their persons, the state is not far from its fall. — HARRY E.
FURGESON, Illinois Pharmacist
At the end of life we shall not be asked how much pleasure we

had in it, but how much service we gave; not how happy we were,
but how helpful we were; not how ambition was gratified, but how
in love we served. - HUGO BLACK, Cadle Call
Do your duty, and history will do you justice. — From the Book,
Good Old Harry, compiled by GEORGE S. CALDWELL. Copyright
© 1966 by Hawthorn Books, Inc., 70 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y.
10011.
God does not ask about our ability or our inability, but our
availability. — The Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine
God has given us hands and hearts, for receiving and

sharing. — BILLY GRAHAM, The Quotable Billy Graham, edited by
Hidden heroes daily bless the world with great words quietly
spoken, great burdens silently lifted, great deeds of mercy and
kindness secretly performed. — HAROLD E. KOHN, A Touch of
It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, I'm

earning enough to live and to support my family. I do my work well.
I'm a good father. I'm a good husband. I'm a good churchgoer."
That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always
to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way
to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth.
You must give some time to your fellowman. — ALBERT
SCHWEITZER
It is said that men become great for three reasons: first, because
of native endowment; second, because of great opportunity; and
third, because of great will to serve. - LEE S. BICKMORE, Vital
Speeches of the Day
Life has no meaning only for those who have no cause to give
themselves to. — Quotation from Get In The Game by BILL GLASS.
Copyright 10-15-65 by Word Books, Waco, Texas.
Mankind's most noble servants have refused to become adjusted

to man's cruelty to man, to predatory economic practices, to the
idea thai disease is inevitable and useless to oppose, to dictatorships,
to the persecution of minorities, to race prejudice, to narrow
nationalism, to the war method of solving international differences.
For conscience's sake, for man's sake and for God's sake they live
daringly. - HAROLD E. KOHN, A Touch of Greatness (Wm. B.
Eerdmans)
Many Christians have enough religion to make them decent, but

not enough to make them d y n a m i c . - J . KENNETH GRIDER,
Herald of Holiness
No man has a right to complain about the world going in the

wrong direction unless he is doing all he can persoanlly with his
energy, his money, and his time to stop it. — T. CECIL MYERS,
Thunder On The Mountain (Abingdon Press)
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help. — GEORGE

MacDONALD quoted by HAROLD E. KOHN, A Touch of Greatness
(Wm. B. Eerdmans)
Nowadays we think of a philanthropist as someone who donates

big sums of money, yet the word is derived from two Greek words,
philos (loving) and anthropos (man): loving man. All of us are
c a p a b l e of b e i n g p h i l a n t h r o p i s t s . We can g i v e o f
ourselves. - EDWARD LINDSEY, Guideposts
Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to

be a burden to him; it is only a step from refusing to live with others
to refusing to live for others. - FULTON J. SHEEN, The Quotable
Fulton J. Sheen, edited by FREDERICK GUSHURST (Droke
House)
One man's salvation often depends on another's service. — The

Sunday Times
Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the
sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little
sympathy, a little toil. . . . Search and see if there is not some place
where you may invest your humanity, - ALBERT SCHWEITZER,
Personnel Journal yj)l
Our capacity to be helpful depends on our skill, our alertness, to

see the needs of people around us, and on our deep-seated capacity
to care enough to help. - WALTER MacPEEK, The Scout Law In
Ach'on.jjAbingdon.,Press). ,,-. LI ,;; J o n .,: ,:yrf „ ; D -,.-;.,.._,,-• .,:(-r.
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to

make yourself do the things you have to do, when it ought to be
done, and whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought
to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is
probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. — High Points
^ " S e l f - m a d e " , men might read this statement by Albert Ein-

s;tein.5 "A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and
outer life depend on the Labors of other men, living and dead, and
that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I
have received and am receiving. —DONALD R. MURPHY, Wallace's
Farmer ~ . ._,
Service, like happiness, seems to be one of those wonderful

extras that comes with a job well done. It is not an entity in itself,
but a blend of honesty, faith, and a genuine interest in the other
person's needs. - TREVA COOLEY, Cuna Mutual Newsletter
Service is our response to the needs of people whom God puts

next to us. - MICHAEL WILSON, The Church Is Healing (SCM
r e S S
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The call does not come to the ear, but to the heart. One does not
"hear" it as much as he knows it. - FULTON J. SHEEN, Our
Sunday Visitor - ;. • ,u •-.••- -A: •.,'•: r - • <n -v.A •-•? j - .".; i oT
The great are always slaves, mastered by the urge to
h e l p . - H A R O L D E. KOHN, A Touch of Greatness (Wm. B.
Ferdinans) :tn ; n it£imUii [0 , , ; ; rr.vt-hwn;; rw :J 01 s t i w SVMI'C
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but
what he becomes by it. - The Uplift
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The highest service may be prepared for and done in the
humblest surroundings. In silence, in waiting, in obscure, unnoticed
offices, in years of uneventful, unrecorded duties, the Son of God
grew and waxed strong. — Inscription in the Chapel of Stanford
University
The measure of a man is not the number of servants he has but

the number of people he serves. — Construction Digest
The surest of all ways to find yourself is to lose yourself in

something bigger than yourself. - ELMER G. LETTERMAN, Per-
sonal Power Through Creative Selling (Harper & Row)
. . . there is more ro the experience of God than that of being

plucked out of the world. The fuller experience . . . is of a Love
which sends us out into the world. - THOMAS R. KELLY, A
Testament of Devotion (Harper & Row)
There is nothing more wonderful than to see a life that might

have been mediocre grow great with a commission bestowed upon it
from God. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh Every Morning (Harper &
Row)
To give of affection is no hardship, or self denial. Our error is

that we sometimes believe our activities are more important. Yet
when we do not think deeply of those who are closest to us, and
other preoccupations replace these normal satisfactions, we are in
danger of becoming (mere) men of action rather than of influence;
personifications of dynamics rather than humanics; busy people
rather than significant individuals. - ERWIN HASKELL SCHELL,
New Strength for New Leadership (Harper & Row)
Too many are waiting for God to do something for them rather
than with them. - RA.LPH W. SOCKMAN, How to Believe (Abing-
don Press)
There seems to be an unwritten law of human nature that men

become their best only when they are working together for
something that is bigger than individual ambition. It is the big cause
that fulfills man's need and dream. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh
. . . trouble is like a burdensome suitcase: carry it with one hand
and it almost tips a person over. Pick up another's suitcase in the
other hand and carry it for him, and it is possible to walk upright.
Another's trouble balances one's own. — HAROLD E. KOHN, A
We are more likely to help a person by concern for his welfare

than by worry about his future. - NORMAN G. SHIDLE, Society of
Automotive Engineers Journal
We cannot pay our debt to the past until we have put the future
in debt to us. - ARTHUR J . MOORE, Fight On! Fear Not!
(Abingdon Press)
We have each to determine whether this world is an arena where

we fight to get what we can for ourselves, or a field of honor where
we. give all we can for our fellowmen. - WILFRED T. GRENFELL,
Sunshine Magazine
There seems to be in the heart of most of us a desire to stand by

a man who is waging a brave battle for a good cause. — GERALD
We see most clearly when we open our eyes to the hidden needs
of a stranger; we hear most keenly when we attune our ears to the
silent call of a friend. - WILLIAM A. WARD,
"What is life's heaviest burden," asked a youth of an old man. He

answered: "To have nothing to carry." - SIMON L. ECKSTEIN,
The Quotable American Rabbis edited by SAMUEL M. SILVER
(&roke House)
What we receive on Sunday can become solid in the world on

Monday morning through the lips of the teacher, the hands of the
nurse, the love of the mother, the fairness of the employer, the
industry of the employee. But what God is making us — persons in
community — through the gift of his own life, is to be responsibly
accepted, developed and shared with the world. — MICHAEL
WILSON, The Church Is Healing (SCM Press)
Whatever other marks of vital Christianity there may be,

compassion, concern, and caring would rank well above them all in
order of importance. - W. T. FURKISER, Herald of Holiness
Whenever a man gets involved in a reform movement, he is
always disturbed at the connections entrenched evil has established
with money and power. But he is also impressed with the number of
people who have nothing to gain personally from the reform who
will join his efforts because he is right. - GERALD KENNEDY,
Fresh Every Morning (Harper & Row)
. . ,while men and nations in rampant selfishness are demanding

their rights, the Christian Church continues to fill the earth with
sacrificial ministers, devout laymen, unselfish doctors, nurses and
teachers who ask only for the privilege of serving their fellows. These
do not say 'The world owes me a living,' but, T owe the world a
life.' - ARTHUR J. MOORE, Immortal Tidings in Mortal Hands
(Abingdon Press)
Unless we help folk when our help is needed, unless we do kind

things, then our own heart will become bereft. Because without life's
whispering memories we will find that we have so little left. — JEAN
MORTON, The People
Mt. 6:24
Mt. 7:12
Mt. 20:26-28
Mt. 23:11
Mt. 25:21
Mt. 25:34-46
Mk. 9:35
Mk. 10:43-45
Lk. 10:30-37
Lk. 17:10
Lk. 22:26-27
Rom. 15:1-3
I Cor. 9:18-22
I Cor. 10:24
II Cor. 8:9
Gal. 6:10
SEX
If we choose to be intent on sex we enlarge its

powers. - GEORGE E. SWEAZEY, In Holy Marriage (Harper &
Row)
In the course of research and discussion, I became convinced that

students are, contrary to popular opinion, at least as responsible in
sexual matters as any group in our society. At the same time they are
the inheritors of an extremely confused and irrational moral
code. - RICHARD HETTLINGER, Living With Sex: The Student's
Dilemma (Seabury)
Monogamy is not a narrowing down of sexuality — it is the way

of life of those who have so high a regard for the great gift of sex
that they are determined to get the most from it, and not the
least. - GEORGE E. SWEAZEY, In Holy Marriage (Harper & Row)
Perverted powers cause lonliness rather than fellowship. One of

the strangest examples here is the power of sex. Created to serve man
in his most intimate relationships, sex creates almost intolerable
loneliness when it becomes a master. The sex pervert is lonely, and so
is the person who has reduced all his relationships to sex. — From
These Rebellious Powers by ALBERT H. von den HEUVEL,
Copyright 1965.
Sex education is not proving the cure-all for our modern moral
decadence that wc had hoped. In our zeal to disarm the old ugly
concepts and dispel the fears and guilt feelings of the young we have
given the impression that adequate knowledge is the complete
liberator. - HAZEN G. WERNER, The Bible and the Family
(Abingdon Press)
Sex is God letting us be gods. He shares with us his power to

create. "Pro-creation" is a beautifully expressive word. We are God's
deputy creators in bringing human beings into life. He trusts his
children to their parents. Everything that has to do with this must be
regarded with the utmost reverence. — GEORGE E. SWEAZEY, In
Sex, made an end in itself, is confused with and misrepresented

as love. Sometimes it drives out and usurps the place of love.
Sometimes sex is love ess — it uses the other person, regards him or
her as means more than end, as a thing. — ROBERT J .
The notion that sex is just another appetite is hopelessly naive. It

may be a "natural" activity, but it differs from other personal
functions. Eating and sleeping and so on are individual actions. Sex is
interpersonal — it directly affects another person. And it can have
consequences that reach far beyond the two people involved. So it's
not simply "like drinking a glass of water when you're
thirsty." - N O R M A N VINCENT PEALE, Sin, Sex and Self-Control
(Doubleday), Published in Great Britain by the World's Work (1913)
Ltd.
Ex. 20:14
Lev. 19:29
Mt. 5:27-28
I Cor. 5:11
I Cor. 6:13-18
Eph.5:3
I Thess. 4:3-7
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SIN
Sin is separation from the true Source of our being. . . . It is

becoming a dropout from spiritual reality. — W. T. PURKISER,
Herald of Holiness
Sin would have few takers if its consequences occurred immedi-

ately. - W. T. PURKISER, Herald of Holiness
Whatever else human sin may be or may involve, it is in its

essential nature flight from the soul's true home. It is running from
the purpose of God for life. - W. T. PURKISER, Herald of Holiness
A Christianity which knows no victory over sin is no better than

heathenism which knows no victory over sin. — BILLY GRAHAM,
The Quotable Billy Graham, edited by CORT R. FLINT (Droke
House)
. . . a sense of guilt is a measure of health. It is indeed 'a driving

force toward healing.' It corresponds in the spiritual life to the role
played by pain in our physical expereience, the warning that
something is wrong and needs attention. — MAX WARREN, Inter-
preting the Cross (SCM Press)
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin
through their love of virture. —Megiddo Message
Doubt is good when it serves growth; doubt is bad when it results

from sin. - NELS F. S. FERRE, God's New Age (Harper & Row)
Evil is man's loss of himself in the tragic attempt to escape the

burden of his humanity. - ERICH FROMM, The Heart of Man
(Harper & Row)
Evil is not evil only because it has bad results. Its bad results
come from the fact that it goes against the very grain of the universe
itself. - W. T. PURKISER, Herald of Holiness
Evil survives in the world primarily because good men fear to

make the sacrifices that must be made to win and retain free-
dom. - DAVID LAWRENCE, U.S. News & World Report, Copy-
righted Editorial, 1-11-67
Guilt implies that our life has meaning, though we have not lived
up to it. In this judgment we have an identity. — WILLIAM E.
HULME, Your Pastor's Problems (Doubleday)
. . . it may be said that the sin of modern man is worse than that
of those who crucified Jesus: they at least paid Him the respect of
noticing Him, of reacting to His holiness, while the modern world
stoops so low as to ignore Him, as though to say, "Who is Jesus that
we should even notice Him?" — From Invitation to Discipleship By
MYRON S. AUGSBURGER. Copyright 1964 by Herald Press. Used
By Permission
Life is a school. There are hard sums to do; new words to learn
and new meanings of words; knotty problems to tug at and solve,
problems to solve partly and then a little more, and more. But of all
the problems we meet from day to day, sin is the greatest to
solve. — Megiddo Message
Loose living and lawless thinking are twin monsters which invite
only to devour. —J. B. CHAPMAN, Your Life: Make the Most of It
(Beacon Hill Press)
Man's sin is his clinging to the lower rather than the higher
self. - BEN ZION BOKSER, The Quotable American Rabbis, edited
by SAMUEL M. SILVER (Droke House)
. . . murder starts in wrong feelings, wrong thinking, wrong

motives. — T. CECIL MYERS, Thunder On The Mountain (Abingdon
Press)
My own definition of good and evil would be: Good is all that
serves life and enhances life, and evil is all that strangles life and tries
to corrupt it or to kill it. - ERICH FROMM, McCalls
No one has ever made the bad more endurable by doubting the
availability of the good, nor has the good ever been made better by
denying the reality of the evil. - ROBERT K. KEIGHTON, Lamps
for the Journey (Abingdon Press)
Not only is the mud of the swamp of sin upon man, the malaria
of the swamp is within him, affecting the whole man with its deadly,
debilitating p o w e r . - J . PAUL TAYLOR, Holiness: The Finished
Foundation (Light & Life Press)
On serious reflection, we cannot avoid concluding that our

fundamental problem is neither ignorance nor defective social
engineering. It is the deep-seated evil in the human heart. It is that
which corrupts all else. In spite of our incredible achievement in the
mastery of nature, the world is chaotic because there is no
corresponding masters of our selfish wills, our egotism, our lust for
power, our insensitivity to the rights and needs of others. — SAM-
UEL McCREA CAVERT, Pulpit Digest
Our generation recognizes the dimension of sin as a description

of relationships among people. Self-love and the will to power have
been seen in their sheer ugliness in our generation. — DAVID S.
SCHULLER, Emerging Shapes of the Church (Concordia)
Sin is a grim fact. It stands like a titantic force — a threat — con-

testing all the good that men may try to accomplish. It stands like a
dark shadow, ever ready to blot out whatever light may reach us
from on high. - BILLY GRAHAM, The Quotable Billy Graham,
edited by CORT R. FLINT (Droke House)
Sin is moral leprosy, and to put up with leprosy is to die with

it. - VANCE HAVNER, Why Not Just Be Christians (Fleming H.
Revell)
Sin pays high wages which must be collected. — PAUL A.

LITTLE, The Sunday School Times
Susanna Wesley, the wise and devoted mother of John Wesley,

counseled her son, "Would you judge of the lawfulness or unlawful-
ness of a pleasure, take this rule: Whatever impairs in tenderness
your conscience, weakens your reason, obscures your sense of God,
or takes off the relish of spiritual things; whatever increases the
authority of your body over your mind — that thing to you is
sin." - NORMAN GODBEY, Watchman-Examiner
The feelings of guilt are the warnings of a "bad conscience" and
the feelings of harmony and joy are the rewards of a "good
conscience." Guilt feelings are as necessary to finding the goalposts
as pain reactions to learning the right and wrong ways of handling
fire, and so forth. - LANCE WEBB, On the Edge of the Absurd
(Abingdon Press)
The great masquerade of evil has thrown all ethical concepts into
confusion. - DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, I Loved This People (John
Knox Press)
The sin of doing nothing has been called the sin of omis-
sion — which is just as dangerous as the sin of commission. — BILLY
(Droke House)
The transgressions of which most of us are guilty are not the

cardinal ones, the once-in-a-lifetime, twice-in-a-lifetime sins. What
corrodes our spirit, what nibbles away at our souls are our tiny,
almost imperceptible faults. It is these little sins that are most
destructive, for we live and work and play in a society which
sanctions, indeed encourages, petty larcenies, petty cheating, minor
breaches of good taste. - MORRIS N. KERTZER, The Quotable
American Rabbis, edited by SAMUEL M. SILVER (Droke House)
The wages of sin are always paid in the coinage of corruption and
death. - W. T. PURKTSER, Herald of Holiness
There can be no good, real genuine good, unless there exists the
possibility to choose evil. - HERBERT GEZORK, Christian Herald
There is a deep sickness which infects the soul of modern man.

Among rationalists its name is positivism. Among the romantics, its
name is existentialism. Both are afraid of life. Both . . . are afraid of
reason. Both . . . are afraid of emotion. Neither one has a belief, a
hope. - ROBERT E. FITCH, The New Republic Reprinted By
Permission of The New Republic. ©1957 Harrison-Blaine of New
Jersey, Inc.
There will be no basic change in society without changed lives. In

every social task, no need is quite as crucial as the need for better
human stuff. The best social organization that man's ingenuity can
devise will always fall far short of its goal if men are narrowly
self-seeking in their interests, obsessed with materialistic standards of
success, bent on exercising power and domination over others. The
root difficulties are in the souls of men. — SAMUEL McCREA
CAVERT, Pulpit Digest
We are too Christian really to enjoy sinning, and too fond of

sinning really to enjoy'Christianity. Most of us know perfectly well
what.we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do
it. - PETER MARSHALL, U. S. Senate Prayer
We in the church have failed to remind this generation that while

God is love, He also has the capacity to hate. He hates sin. — BILLY
(Droke House)
Satan is a malignant personality in revolt against God who

unceasingly seeks the destruction of man. — L. NELSON BELL,
Christianity Today By Permission
You cannot play with sin and overcome it at the same

time. — J. C. MacAULAY, Moody Monthly
Our best remedy against sin is to be shocked at it. — CARDINAL

NEWMAN quoted by W. B. J. MARTIN, Pulpit Digest
Num. 32:23
Prov. 24:8-9
J n . 8:34
Rom. 5:12-21
Rom. 14:23
Jas. 1:14-15
I J n . 3:4
I J n . 3:8-10
I J n . 5:17
SORROW
A new world opens up to the person who, in his suffering, senses

the possibility of using it rather than bearing it. We cannot explain
suffering, but we may exploit it. - W. T. PURKISER, Herald of
Holiness
A permanent cripple, living a busy life and revealing evident

happiness and success, was asked if his affliction colored his view.
"Yes," he answered, and added with a smile, "but I mix the
colors!" - SHELDON SHEPARD, Science of Mind
Adversity, if it isn't completely desperate, tends to bring out the

best in most men. Prosperity tends to tranquilize him. In adversity, a
man reaches for sources of strength beyond himself. In prosperity, he
sees the strength as coming from himself by lifting himself by his
own bootstraps. - ARTHUR F. WHITE, Pulpit Digest
Adversity tests the reality of what one believes. — DON

MALLOUGH, 7/7 Were God (Baker Book House)
An unwanted hardship may build more soul, and testing may

strengthen more moral fiber, than all the pleasantness an easy life can
afford us. Storms have a rightful place in this kind of world. —
HAROLD E. K 0 H N , 7 Touch of Greatness (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
Botanists say that trees need the powerful March winds to flex
their trunks and main branches, so that the sap is drawn up to
nourish the budding leaves. Perhaps we need the gales of life in the
same way, though we dislike enduring them. A blustery period in our
fortunes is often the prelude to a new spring of life and health,
success and happiness, when we keep steadfast in faith and look to
the good in spite of appearances. —JANE TRUAX, Good Business
God does not let us suffer to make slaves of us, but to raise us
above ourselves to develop our highest powers. — LANCE WEBB, On
the Edge of the Absurd (Abingdon Press)
God, it has been said, does not comfort us to make us

comfortable, but to make us comforters. Lighthouses are built by
drowning sailors. Roads are widened by mangled motorists. Where
nobody suffers, nobody cares. - W. T. PURKISER, Herald of Holi-
ness
Grief never disappears when it is supposed. . . . The more you
grieve in the aftermath of your tragedy, the better your emotional
health will be. You must find the reason for your own living and
accept the fact God has a very definite purpose for your life. That is
the reason you are still here. Exercise, work, and faith are three great
helps to anyone. - CORT R. FLINT, Grief's Slow Wisdom (Droke
House)
I judge that it would be morbid to desire suffering and to seek

for it, but if suffering comes, as it does to all of us, in the way of
duty or of circumstance, we must accept it. Some men, when
suffering comes, are made resentful, embittered, hardened by it;
others are patient, becoming softened, made more understanding,
more gentle, more useful, more sympathetic by it. All depends upon
the spirit in which suffering is taken. - NATHANIEL MICKLEM, A
Religion for Agnostics (SCM Press)
It has been said that God did not design the universe as a cushion
but as a challenge. It is not by having things easy but by tackling the
"impossible" that we grow. - W. T. PURKISER, Herald of Holiness
It has been the great sufferers of the world who have become the
great believers. - WALLACE FRIDY
. . . much of the evil and suffering we endure is our schoolmaster

to teach and discipline us as sons — if we are willing to learn. —
LANCE WEBB, On the Edge of the Absurd (Abingdon Press)
Not all of life's most meaningful lessons are learned in the bright
light of noonday. Some are understood best in the shadows. —
GEORGE COULTER, Herald of Holiness
Nothing brings out more of the best and of the worst in man
than the challenge of great crises, and you never really know yourself
and others except in the testing crucible of such crises. — CHARLES
MALIK, Man in the Struggle for Peace (Harper & Row)
Pain and death always have the last word in this world of
ours. . . . There is enough pain in one alley of a big city slum or in
one hospital ward to convince even the dreamiest optimist that life is
not naturally good. - OSWALD C.J. HOFFMAN, Life Crucified
(Wm. B. Eerdmans)
Pain, suffering, trouble do give us one opportunity we should not

otherwise have. It does give us the chance to offer God "an unbribed
worship," a love not bought by prosperity and ease of circum-
stance. - W. T. PURKISER, Herald of Holiness
Some people never look up until they are flat on their backs;
they never think of God until they are face to face with some
disaster. A great deal of rust requires a sharp file. Many a person
would never think upon the meaning of life unless sickness had
detached him from his great love of the boibles of this life. —
FULTON J. SHEEN, The Quotable Fulton J. Sheen, edited by
FREDERICK GUSHUR.ST (Droke House)
If God had been seeking our comfort above everything else, He

might have contrived to make this a less painful world. But He is out
after character, not comfort. — CLOVIS CHAPPELL quoted by
W. T. PURKISER, Herald of Holiness
Strange as it may seem, when you go through hurt you achieve

power. Sure it hurts to stretch your lungs, it hurts to stretch those
muscles. But when you do it, the next time you have more capacity
and more power. You can't be great in sports without pain. — BOB
RICHARDS, The Christian Athlete
Suffering breeds loneliness and causes isolation. Unshared, it can

destroy one's person. Every sufferer needs a Friend who understands
him and his predicament. To be truly understood is a strengthening
experience. — WALLACE E. FISHER, Preaching and Parish Renewal
(Abingdon Press)
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without

pain, there is no lover who is not also a martyr. — HENRY SUSO
quoted by LANCE WEBB, On the Edge of the Absurd (Abingdon
Press)
l a k e any shadow you please and trace it far enough and you will
see that it is the dark side of a bright object, pain being the shadow
of our wondrous capacity to feel, mistakes being the dark side of our
glorious freedom to make choices — even wrong choices, disagree-
ments being the shaded side of the tremendous variety of opinions
that make an interesting world. — HAROLD E. KOHN, Thoughts
Afield (Wm. B. Eerdmans.)
The calibre of a man is found in his ability to meet disappoint-

ment successfully, enriched rather than narrowed by it. — THOMAS
R. KELLY, A Testament of Devotion (Harper & Row)
The crushing anguish so present in our world is usually not

apparent in a Sunday morning or a Wednesday evening congregation.
Human distress ferments in the squalor of decaying tenement houses
and at the back table of a gin mill on State Street, and boils in the
core of a frenzied mob seeking vengence on oppressors. — GILBERT
JAMES, Christianity Today, By Permission.
The more grief inflicted upon you, the better fitted you are to
appreciate joy. More often than not the so-called negatives are assets.
There cannot be a front without a back, an up without a down, a
cold without heat, a love without hate. — Cadle Call
There are two platitudes that well-intentioned but unthinking

people often voice to bereaved friends which are especially difficult
to take. These are: "Time will heal" and "You will get over it." You
instinctively know that both of these statements are patently false.
Time does NOT heal and you will NOT get over it. What WILL
happen is that eventually you will adjust to this heartbreaking sorrow
and learn to live with it. - CORT R. FLINT, Grief's Slow Wisdom
(Droke House)
. . . there is a meaning, depth, color, and power in suffering that

we have missed if we run, frightened, from it. — CARLYLE
MARNEY, The Suffering Servant (Abingdon Press)
Trouble has not diminished since man first turned from God. It
does not wear out. Its energy surges unabated. No laboratory is
dedicated to its demise. No medicine paralyzes its clutching hand. No
light eclipses its glare. The so-called progress of mankind has not led
him from it's kingdom of sorrow. — V. H. LEWIS, Radiant Religion,
edited by W. T. PURK1SER (Beacon Hill Press)
We are not so much affected by what happens to us as we are by

our interpretation of what happens. — HAROLD E. KOHN, A Touch
of Greatness (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our

existence, but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We
need as much something to suffer for as something to live
for. - ERIC HOFFER, Harper's Magazine
What really matters is what happens in us, not to us. —JAMES

W. KENNEDY, Minister's Shop-Talk (Harper & Row)
When all is well man can easily imagine himself self-sufficient,

but in the trembling halls of suffering we know that God is a
necessity. - WILLIAM B. WARD, Out of the Whirlwind (John Knox
Press)
When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for
what it has found. - ANONYMOUS
Whether one suffers secretly or openly, everyone gets his share of

hardship. No one is slighted. No vaccine protects against it. No
alcoholic escapade banishes it. No religious charm prevents
it. — WALLACE E. FISHER, Preaching and Parish Renewal
(Abingdon Press)
You will not understand pain until you understand that life is
not a pursuit of happiness, a search for ease, but a training for
greatness. — The Free Methodist
Ec. 7:3
Isa. 53:3
Rom. 8:17-26
II Cor. 1:7
Phil. 1:29
IIThess. 1:4-5
I Pet. 4:13-14
I Pet. 5:10
SPECIAL DAYS
Advent:
Christmas teaches that God is here, not "out there somewhere,"
not cloistered in some sanctuary. It is so easy to shut him up, fence
him about, confine him to some small, Sunday-morning segment of
our lives. "The Word became flesh" reminds us that He is present
where men hurt and women grieve, where flesh is bruised and
children hunger. - HERBERT E. VanMETER, Pulpit Digest
Christmas means that God made contact with man, and revealed
the length and depth of His forgiving love for a fallen race of
men. - BILLY GRAHAM, The Quotable Billy Graham, edited by
If men everywhere took Christmas seriously and lived their lives

by it, we would soon have a world in which man would come before
the machine, in which playgrounds and housing would replace slums
and ghettos, in which the cruel barriers of race and religion would
vanish, and in which Christ "would see the travail of His soul and be
satisfied." - J O S E P H P. SIZOO, Still We Can Hope (Abingdon Press)
It must not be forgotten that the first Christmas song was sung in
the night . . . That is a comforting fact. When the world is dark, the
light shines, not from among men but from heaven. — CLELAND B.
McAFEE, Near to the Heart of God (The Bobbs-Merrill Co.)
Primarily there is a smothering of the sense of wonder. We are

expected to wonder at a Tiffany necklace or a piece of tailoring from
Saks Fifth Avenue, but the fact of Christmas must be handled with
cautious, cool and blase decorum. Yet simple shepherds on a hillside
wondered at something that broke suddenly into their lives, and
today, after two thousand years, what they saw still turns wretched
persons into saints and sends them out on seemingly profitless
errands to turn men from sin to God. — DONALD MacLEOD, The
Pulpit
The Christmas symbol is built of no sign of language but on the
life of love, fragile and frail amidst the world's darkness of
evil. - NELS F. S. FERRE, God's New Age (Harper & Row)
The real world that Jesus came to save is blocked out by the
scenery of poinsettias, trees and row of candles. Get them out!
Forget the old meaningless carols, have the youngsters accompany
them on a guitar or bass. Have the pastor preach his Christmas
sermon wearing a sports shirt or maybe a sweat shirt. Have the choir
wear everyday clothes, not red and black robes. Get rid of everything
that separates the house of worship from the world where Christ was
born. - MALCOMB BOYD, McCall's
The Christmas assurance supremely is that God has not forgotten

human need. - CLELAND B. M C A F E E , Near to the Heart of God
(The Bobbs-Merrill Co.)
We are so intent on the art of giving (at Christmas) — particularly

in a material way — that we forget all about the art of receiving. But
the true spirit of Christmas demands both sides of this coin. We
should practice receiving as we give, with the same time, effort,
love. - MARY JOLLON, Today's Secretary
Christ's coming in the flesh — His invading the world — His

identifying Himself wkh sinful man — is the most significant fact in
all history. - BILLY GRAHAM, The Quotable Billy Graham, edited
by CORT R. FLINT (Droke House)
Isa. 7:14
Isa. 9:6-7
Mt. 1:18-25
Mt. 2:1-23
Lk. 2:1-39
National Holidays —
In these troubled times, when the very principles of freedom are
being questioned, and when people seek to destroy freedom in the
name of liberty, it is right and fitting that we should reaffirm our
allegiance to the two greatest documents ever written: the Declara-
tion of Independence and the Constitution of the U. S. with its Bill
of Rights. We believe that along this road alone lies
liberty. - ERNEST HOLMES, Science of Mind
I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied

outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a
lifetime. - ADLAI STEVENSON
Our fundamental liberties were guaranteed in the Constitution

not for enjoyment by a majority, but for the protection of a
minority, whether it be one or many, in war or peace, equally for the
weak as for the powerful. True patriotism, it seems to me, requires us
to guard jealously those liberties, for others as well as for
ourselves. — ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG, National Education Associa-
tion Journal
New Year's —
Years do not come to be counted. They come to
count. — Bulletin Board, Barberton Citizens Hospital, Barberton,
Ohio
New Year's Day . . . is a time for thanksgiving. We have reached

the land of beginning again. An old country of time lies behind us,
and we enter a new country — fresh, unspoiled, unexplored, beckon-
ing us to hope and opportunity . . . - A. LEONARD GRIFFITH,
Pulpit Digest
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or

to lose. - LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Passover —
Passover and the Exodus lived in Jewish life. It was the poetry of
their existence, and the great biblical songs in the Book of Exodus
spoke to the hearts of the people, not only to their minds. Israel had
been a slave. It had been freed. Israel stood before Mt. Sinai, and
freely accepted the covenant of Judaism which made it different
from other peoples. - ALBERT H. FRIEDLANDER, American
Judaism
STEWARDSHIP
Giving is the most significant thing a man does. — T. K. THOMP-

SON, Pulpit Digest
If you give when you are asked, you have waited too
long. - ORBEN ARNOLD, The Kiwanis Magazine
Most people apportion their giving according to their earnings. If

the process were reversed and the Giver of All were to apportion our
earnings according to our giving, some of us would be very poor
indeed. — World Vision Magazine
The greatest gifts we can give to others are not material things
but gifts of ourselves. The great gifts are those of love, of inspiration,
of kindness, of encouragement, of forgiveness, of ideas and
ideals. - WALTER A. HEIBY, Live Your Life (Harper & Row)
True, everything we have comes from our Father, our ability, our
industry, our technical know-how. But when we use it without Him,
when we treat it as paid-out capital which we can use as we please, it
decays in our hands. - HELMUT THIELICKE, The Waiting Father
(Harper & Row)
We reach out towards the other. In vain, because we have never

cared to give ourselves. — DAG HAMMARSKJOLD quoted by
HAZEN G. WERNER, The Bible and the Family (Abingdon Press)
When a Christian begins to make big money, God either gains a

fortune or loses a man. — The Nazarene Preacher
Prov. 3:9-10
I Cor. 4:2
TEMPERANCE
(Alcoholism) A one way street to nowhere. Ministers stand

against liquor, not because they are narrow bigots and prudes; rather
because they would like to get some rest from the multiplicities of
night calls, some relaxing of the oppressive time consumption to help
alleviate the family disintegration due to alcohol. — Quotation from
Don't Miss It If You Can by JESS MOODY. Copyright 6-30-65 by
Word Books, Waco, Texas.
Authorities estimate that: . . . Two out of three adults in the

U.S. regularly use alcoholic beverages; . . . Of those who drink
regularly, one out of 14 — about seven percent — will become
alcoholics;... Of the more than five million alcoholics in the nation,
three million are in the work force;. . . The life-span of the alcoholic
is 12 years shorter than average. - J. L. WOODALL, The L &N
Magazine
Drinking is the refuge of the weak; it is crutches for lame

ducks. - E. STANLEY JONES, The Way (Abingdon Press)
Drinking was a sin first and a disease later. — BILLY GRAHAM,

The Quotable Billy Graham, edited by CORT R. FLINT (Droke
House)
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling

himself a slave to it. — Megiddo Message
Objectively alcoholics are responsible for their condition. . . . But

subjectively it seems to me, not many are morally guilty. . . . Very
few forsee addiction. . . . Very few believe they will ever become
drunks. They succeed in deceiving themselves. — JOHN C. FORD,
S.J., Depth Psychology, Morality and Alcoholism (Weston College
Press)
The alcohol problem confronts us today with one of the worst

evils of our sensate culture. No form of human suffering is more
tragic and none involves more people. — ALBION R. KING, "The
Temperance Movement Today," Christian Century, 3-8-61
Rom. 13:14 Phil. 4:5
I Cor. 9:25 II Pet. 1:6
TEMPTATION
Flaming youth may offer fewer temptations than does ferment-

ing maturity. - GEORGE E. SWEAZEY, In Holy Marriage (Harper &
Row)
Many of the world's most attractive temptations are like some

television commercials; frequently deceptive and frightfully
costly. - WILLIAM A. WARD
Temptation is a battleground upon which man's selfishness

challenges God's divine will. - ROBERT OZMENT,. . . but God can
(Fleming H. Revell)
Temptations from without have no power unless there be

corresponding desire within. — Sunshine Magazine
. . . the temptations to compromise with integrity are not really

changed at all. Men have always had them; men will always have
them. They are part of the predicament that man is man. And the
notion that we are living in such a fresh time that wisdom has "come
with u s " whereas nobody ever had it before — this I find to be an
absolutely intolerable conceit. - E. ELTON TRUEBLOOD, Christi-
anity Today, By Permission
The way to meet temptation reveals the spiritual quality of our

souls. - R. E. GOSSrl, Pulpit Digest
When you meet temptation turn to the right and temptation will
be left. — Nuggets
Temptation gets at us through our virtues. Religious people

readily mistake their hormones for the Holy Spirit. — GEORGE E.
SWEAZEY, In Holy Marriage (Harper & Row)
Prov. 1:10-17 I Cor. 10:13 II Pet. 2:9
Prov. 6:27-28 Eph. 6:11-17 Rev. 3:10
Prov. 19:27 Heb. 2:18
Mt. 26:41 Heb. 4:15
Lk. 4:1-13 Jas. 1:2-4
Rom. 12:21 Jas. 4:7
THANKSGIVING
When asked what lesson he had learned from civilization, an old

Indian replied: "Ingratitude." — Cadle Call
A Man who is able to give thanks seriously accepts that he is a

creature and acknowledges his finitude. — PAUL TILLICH quoted
by MAURICE E. ROBERTS, Pulpit Digest
. . . everyone must choose from his experience what he will be

most attentive to, life's adversities or its blessings. Gratitude is less a
matter of what happens to us than it is a matter of choosing which of
the things that happen to us we will dwell upon, and with what kind
of attitude. Gratitude is discretion. It is man's power of choice
exalted to its highest function. - HAROLD E. KOHN, A Touch of
Gratitude is the mother of all virtues and it springs from an

awareness of God's goodness to us. - ARTHUR J. MOORE, Fight
On! Fear Not! (Abingdon Press)
He who can return thanks for little will always find he has
enough. — The Sunday Times
Let us be thankful for all we have, even as we strive for

something better. — Nuggets
One moment of thinking of our blessings will require an hour of

thanking. - WILFERD A. PETERSON, Science of Mind
Paganism has no note of thanksgiving in its worship. Its people

may have prayer wheels and make pilgrimages, but they have no song
of praise. They have fetishes erected for fear of evil spirits but they
know nothing of a feast of gratitude for God's goodness. They have
idols but no ideals that show God's mercy and grace. — V.
RAYMOND EDMAN, Christian Herald
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and

has no one to thank. - SAMUEL McCREA CAVERT, Pulpit Digest
There is no verbal vitamin more potent than praise. — FRED-

ERICK B. HARRIS, Sunshine Magazine
Ps. 50:14
Ps. 98:1
Ps. 105:1
Ps. 106:1
Ps. 107:1-2
Ps. 118:1
Prov. 3:9-10
Eph. 5:20
Phil. 4:6
Col. 2:7
Col. 3:15-17
IThess. 5:18
I Tim. 2:1
Heb.13:15
VALUES
A nation begins to die at its heart when its values are upside
down, when its conscience is astrophied, when its ideals are put in
cold storage. - ARTHUR J. MOORE, Fight On! Fear Not!
(Abingdon Press)
A nation is wise if it has moral insight, if it has a sound grasp of

values and understands what it ought for the public good to aim at
and strive after and put first. - ROBERT J. McCRACKEN, What Is
Sin? What Is Virtue? (Harper & Row)
Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit

of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in
thought and especially in deed. - ALBERT SCHWEITZER, Guide-
posts
I don't want my children to think God is named Hart Schaffner

and Marx or some feminine counterpart. Nor do I want them to
think the good life is a late model automobile while on the road and
a TV set at home. . . . There is plenty in our society . . . to mislead
our young into believing that God is a comfortable middle-class
standard of living. — Quaker Life
If we are to survive the atomic age, we must have something to

live by, to live on, and to live for. We must stand aside from the
world's conspiracy of fear and hate and grasp once more the great
monosyllables of life; faith, hope and love. Men must live by these if
they live at all under the crushing weight of history. — O. P.
KRETZMANN, Illinois Medical Journal
Find a worthwhile goal in life and persist toward it. . . .

Remember that what you think about yourself is what you tend to
become. . . - BOB PETTIT, Guideposts
. . . it is better to follow even the shadow of the best than to be

content with the worst. - VAN DYKE quoted by R. E. GOSSE,
Pulpit Digest
Like a marching army, we have come up to the crossroads at

midnight, with all the sign boards down. No thoughtful and informed
person would deny that there are realities in the present world
situation with which temporizing and shadow makeshifts cannot
cope. . . . We must discover again those intangible but nevertheless
imperishable ideals by which we live. - ARTHUR. J. MOORE, Fight
On! Fear Not! (Abingdon Press)
Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for. —
CHARLES MAYES, World Vision Magazine
Much of today was fashioned in the workshop of yesterday.

Much of tomorrow is being forged on the anvil of today. — W. T.
. . . no one has a right to own our souls except God. —

MARGARET CHASE SMITH, Pulpit Digest
Only the highest ideals are clear enough windows through which
to view the world, and only the best principles make worthy guides
of conduct. - HAROLD E. KOHN, A Touch of Greatness (Wm. B.
Eerdmans)
Our desire for a thing is measured by the sacrifice we will make

to attain it. - WILLIAM FEATHER, William Feather Magazine
The corruption of the best produces the worst. — quoted by

HAROLD E. KOHN, Adventures In Insight (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
The greatness of men is not in themselves but in what they say,

what they stand for, what they believe. - GERALD KENNEDY,
Fresh Every Morning (Harper & Row)
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary

terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks
and bonds, automobiles and real estate, but friendships, trust,
confidence, sympathy, mercy, love and faith. — RUSSELL V.
DeLONG, The Rotarian
The things that matter most are at the mercy of things that
matter least. - W. PAUL JONES, The Recovery of Life's Meaning
(Association Press)
The tragedy of this age may well be the gaining of goods without
ever discovering what is really the good. — W. T. PURKISER, Herald
of Holiness
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world,"
said Victor Hugo, "and that is an idea whose time has come." It has
the capacity to change you, your business, and t h e world. It is
immortality. A great thought can echo and re-echo through the
generation. Turn a thinker loose, and you shake the world. —
EUGENE P. BERTIN, Pennsylvania School Journal
The ultimate values of mankind are spiritual; these values include

liberty, human dignity, opportunity and equal rights and justice. —
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, The Quotable Dwight D. Eisenhower,
edited by ELSIE GOLLAGHER (Droke House)
This is a world of opposing values where one must be taking sides

constantly, and it matters what side you take. Liking the good in life
involves disliking the bad, and loving the highest means detesting the
mediocre. The gardener who loves flowers must also hate weeds. —
HAROLD E. KOHN, Thoughts Afield (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
We are focusing our attention on the right things, but for the
wrong reasons. As long as fear controls us, we will be on the
defensive. To create a revolution we must march out strikingly on
the offensive. - K. MORGAN EDWARDS, More Than Survival
(Abingdon Press)
We are often hauled off in some direction we should not go by

powers unworthy to be our leaders. — HAROLD E. KOHN, Adven-
tures In Insight (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
We do not take time to dig out information, to think through the

great issues, and our minds become cluttered with nonsense. —
ARTHUR J. MOORE, Fight On! Fear Not! (Abingdon Press)
We have been brainwashed into accepting the material and

physical values in life as the answers to the hunger of our
souls. - HARRISON R. THOMPSON, Pulpit Digest
We have been subjected t o . t h e absurdities of an age of science

with all its potential glories that has exploded into an age both of
revolution and moral degeneracy. For most of us have knowledge
about everything except the things that matter most: the meanings
and values, the purposes and resources by which life at its best is
possible. - LANCE WEBB, On the Edge of the Absurd (Abingdon
Press)
We need one another and we need to be associated in a common

cause. Men who have gone through difficult times together find
values that are to be discovered in no other place. — GERALD
When anyone puts a limit on what he will do, he thereby limits

what he can feel and what he can be. Act the way you would like to
be and you will soon be the way you act. — HAROLD E. KOHN, A
Without some ultimate "because" there can be no worthy

"therefore"! - LANCE WEBB, On the Edge of the Absurd
(Abingdon Press)
You can fill your time with things that are good, things that are
wonderful, things that are splendid, at the expense of things that are
finer. — C. ROY ANGELL, Shields of Brass (Broadman Press)
Mt. 6:19-21
Mt. 12:35
Mt. 16:26
Phil. 4:8
WAR
A generation ago man dreamed of fighting the war to end all

wars. Today this is no longer a dream to be hoped for but a
nightmare to be feared. - JOHN H. HAYES, Quote
Disarmament of minds and hearts must precede disarmament of

the hands. - DOMINIQUE GEORGES PIRE, Ramparts
History tells us that to glorify war in the eyes of children makes

it socially difficult for a child not to be warlike. To glorify crime and
killing makes it impossible to guide against crime and killing. To
preach war is not the path to peace. - JOHN M. DRESCHER, Herald
of Holiness
In every war we give our best men and women, not our worst.
Only those who can pass the physical and mental tests are crippled
and slain. Only those capable of dreaming great dreams and achieving
great goals are sent to the sacrifice. - HAROLD E. KOHN, A Touch
of Greatness (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
In our own lifetimes we have gone from the hopefulness of

scientific optimism to the pessimism of scientific despair. For out of
this method and power have come the instruments of destruction
and the threat of annihilation. - GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh Every
Morning (Harper 8c Row)
It is a crime against mankind that so much courage, and so much

will, and so many dreams, must be flung on the fires of war and
death. - LYNDON B.JOHNSON
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the
triumphs that are the aftermath of war. - HERBERT HOOVER
War is fear cloaked in courage. It is excitement overlaying

boredom. It is close friendships, with loneliness only a thought away.
It is compassion in the midst of destruction. It is dedication winning
over weariness and frustration. - WILLIAM C. WESTMORELAND,
McCall's
War is not necessary, but it does become an inseparable ailment

of any world that abandons the supremacy of the spirit. In any era of
history where politics is the major interest, war is the major
consequence. — FULTON J . SHEEN, The Quotable Fulton J. Sheen,
edited by FREDERICK GUSHURST (Droke House)
You can win wars and still lose civilizations. — ARNOLD J.

TOYNBEE
Ps. 68:30
Mt. 24:6
WORSHIP
A shallow religiousness, the tendency to be content with a bright

ethical piety wrongly called practical Christianity, a nice, brightly-
varnished this-world faith seems to me to be one of the ruling defects
of institutional religion at the present time. We are drifting toward a
religion which consciously or unconsciously keeps its eye on
humanity rather than on Deity — which lays all the stress on service,
and hardly any of the stress on awe. And that is the type of religion
which in practice does not wear well. - EVELYN UNDERHILL
quoted by SAMUEL McCREA CAVERT, Pulpit Digest
Any choice of occupation which drives a wedge between our

worship and work, clearly needs reexamination. — RITA SNOWDEN,
The Time Of Our Lives (Abingdon Press)
As we keep or break the Sabbath we nobly save or meanly lose

the last best hope by which man rises. — ABRAHAM LINCOLN
quoted by T. CECIL MYERS, Thunder On The Mountain (Abingdon
Press)
Christ can transform our fear into faith, our anxiety into
adoration, and our worry into worship. — WILLIAM A. WARD
Christian worship is the most momentous, the most urgent, the

most glorious action that can take place in human life. — KARL
BARTH, Fireside Chat
For multitudes of us . . . no experience of God is either expected

or felt, no word from God listened for or heard and no command of
God received or obeyed. - LANGDON GILKEY, How the Church
Can Minister to the World Without Losing Itself (Harper & Row)
God is always able to see us. Worship takes place when we see
him. - GARY REISWIG, Christianity Today, By Permission
If life looks cloudy, maybe the windows of your soul need

washing. — The Uplift
In prayer and worship . . . one learns that God can use all that
one does for his purposes: the frustrations, mistakes, failures — even
outright rebelliousness — when offered to him. Through prayer and
worship all life becomes meaningful and purposeful. — From The
Ministry of the Laity by FRANCIS D. AYERS, The Westminster
Press Copyright © 1962. W. L. JENKINS. Used by Permission.
It is well known that public worship has again and again become
alive and appropriate at times of crisis or triumph, at times when the
realities of the world force concern, confession, or joy upon
u s . - M A R T I N CONWAY, The Undivided Vision (SCM Press)
(U.S.A., Fortress Press I
Once we stood amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene;

now we want to sit amused. Once we were edified; now we must be
entertained. - VANCE HAVNER, Why Not Just Be Christians
(Fleming H. Revell)
Something divine has gone out of the nation that neglects its
holy days. — Arkansas Methodist
Taking a journey through the week without "bothering" to stop

for public worship is like trying to tour the United States without
stopping at a gasoline station. We stall. The church is power for
traveling. - HAROLD E. KOHN, A Touch of Greatness (Wm. B.
Eerdmans)
The mood of true religion is one of wonder and awe. Whenever

religious people have lost this mood, you may be sure they have lost
their way. Standing before the majesty of God and seeing all the
wonder of His involvement in human life, man breaks into poetry if
he is able, but at the very least he stands in silence. Perhaps nothing
indicates more clearly that our religion has become profitless and
stale than the rarity of this experience of awe. — GERALD
The service to the least and the lost of this world begins after the
worshiper, with the sinews of his soul flexed by church attendance,
leaves the church and walks in the busy ways of men. The church is
therefore a place for refueling — or even for an overhauling.—J.
KENNETH GRIDER, Herald of Holiness
The world is choosing sides between good and evil. Some people
wisely attend church to show on which side they stand. — HAROLD
E. KOHN, A Touch of Greatness (Wm. B. Eerdmans)
There is a sense in which the Church exists to remind us who we

are and what our purposes should be. Noisy living and trivial thinking
corrodes the dignity of our status as the sons of God. But as we come
together to worship and serve in the name of Christ, we see once
again God's plan for us and God's call to greatness. — GERALD
The Sabbath is a graphic weekly lesson that the world is not

self-generated; and that man is a tenant in the world, not its
master. — SEYMOUR SIEGEL, The Quotable American Rabbis,
The great danger of the church today is not that it will be

criticized, persecuted, or hounded to death; it has always thrived on
opposition. The peril comes from the church's preoccupied and
indifferent "friends," who believe worship is valuable but inconven-
ient. - HAROLD E. KOHN, A Touch of Greatness (Wm. B.
Eerdmans)
True worship is not ritual. The place of worship can be a

riverside. . . . Worship is adoration of God. — The Sunday School
Times
Woe unto us when we lose our sense of the holiness of the

Almighty and minimize the awesome and indeed terrifying experi-
ence of coming into His presence. — GERALD KENNEDY, Fresh
Through worship we come to know what God asks of us. —

JUDAH NADICH, The Quotable American Rabbis, edited by
Isa. 6:1-8
Mt. 4:10
Mt. 18:20
J n . 4:24
YOUTH
Adolescence is the spring in the seasons of the body, a time of

growth and awakening, characterized by tentativeness and unease.
The adolescent runs — and somelimes stumbles — toward maturity.
And, in a variety of ways, society also impels him on and works to
hold him back, both at the same time. - J O H N WAKEM AN, Parents'
Magazine
A wise Christian leader has recently written, 'Make no mistake

about it, the church which will not listen to its youth will die. For
God can say some things to young men that old men cannot
hear.' - W. T. PURKISER, Herald of Holiness
I do not think that youth today are any different from the youth
of a generation or two ago. They still are waiting to be challenged,
but they are waiting to be challenged by something big! —JACK B.
NORTH, Pulpit Digest
If youth is the greatest resource of any nation, we must pay

attention to all our young people, not just those who vex or disturb
us. We must open up new avenues, new opportunities, for the
fortunate as well as for the less fortunate. — CLAIBORNE PELL,
National Education Association Journal
In every young person there is a revolutionary seed, a readiness

to dedicate himself to a just and progressive cause. But whether this
dedication becomes purposeful does not depend on the youth alone;
it depends on society in equal measure. In other words, it depends
upon how much society is ready to trust its youth, how much faith it
has in its own future. - VLADIMIR POZNER YURI FILINOVICH
and YURI SHARAPOV, Soviet Life
In the performance of . . . duties, (as Miss Teenage America) I

have observed that it is not the adults who judge us most harshly, but
teens themselves. We are, indeed, critical of ourselves. We want to
succeed in becoming aware and responsible adults, ready to assume
all the adult tasks that will soon be ours to accomplish. —
CAROLYN MIGNINl
Is youth too young today? Does it need a leader less? Has it not
much to give? Many voices call. Many causes are presented. Many
signposts are down. The clear edges of behaviour are all too often
smudged. Happy the youth with energies unspent, enthusiasm
undimmed, who responds to Christ! - RITA SNOWDEN, The Time
Of Our Lives (Abingdon Press)
Many an unlikely looking lad near you is more than he appears to

be. The future man is there; God's man to serve God's purposes in a
needy world is there, even though veiled beneath a boyish swagger.
These possibilities deserve the homage of our meditative eyes and of
our faith in what God can do with human seed. No "mere child" is
"mere" in God's sight. - HAROLD E. KOHN, A Touch of Greatness
(Wm. B. Eerdmans)
Many of today's young people are engaged in what ultimately

amounts to a religious quest. They are exploring themselves and the
world with a view to developing new personal and social mean-
ings. - To Make a Difference, edited by OTTO BUTZ (Harper &
Row)
Many parents seek only happiness for their children. Character

becomes secondary. We measure too often the growth of our
children by whether or not they have a good time. Civilization could
go to pot while our youth is having a good time. — RICHARD
LEVITON, The Quotable American Rabbis, edited by SAMUEL M.
SILVER (Droke House)
. . . in talking to young people, I get the impression that they are

looking for some moral disciplines, some yardsticks, by which to
m e a s u r e their conduct. Their problem is that we — the
Church —have given them nothing to go by. —JACK B. NORTH,
Pulpit Digest
Since foundations of human progress are laid in education, the

future can be no more purposeful than the legacy of human values
each generation leaves to the next. - ROBERT K. NEWELL, The
Freeman
The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute

for experience, while the error of age is to believe that experience is a
substitute for intelligence. — LYMAN BRYSON, American School
News
. . . the reason so many students protest these days is that they

have nothing to proclaim. — VAN VARNER, Guideposts
The sin of the old is the belief that everything ends with them.
The sin of the young is to believe that everything starts with
them. - GEORGE FAILING, The Wesleyan Methodist
The YMCA gives surprising information as to the part young men

have played in the affairs of the world. For instance, Martin Luther
was 27 years of age when he led his revolt against Rome. John Calvin
was 26 when he published his Institutes. George Williams was 23
when he founded the YMCA, and David Livingston was 23 when he
started his work in Africa. — Sunshine Magazine
To flatter and pamper the young for ten years is to leave them
increasingly dissatisfied for the next fifty. —J. B. PRIESTLEY, The
Critic
Visiting the campuses of the country, I realize that I'm face to

face with the most precious possession America has today: its young
boys and girls. I discount the sensational nonsense we hear on all
sides because I know they said the same thing about the young boys
and girls of the 1920's. Indeed the 1920's had become a byword for
irresponsibility. - HARRY GOLDEN, Family Weekly
What's wrong with the world, they say, is us. Adults. We prod
and we push and we stifle them. We are conformists. We drink, we
make illicit love, we start big wars, we start little wars. We are
prejudiced, we want security. And then we have the nerve to criticize
them because they want to be different from us. — ELAINE
GREENSPAN, Family Circle
Youth are in action. Not just physically, but mentally, spiritu-

ally. They are searching for something meaningful, lasting, satisfy-
ing. — The Christian Athlete
Ec. 11:9
Ec. 12:1
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The editor gratefully acknowledges the following publishers, authors,
agents, etc., who have granted permission to use material found in this volume.
Abingdon Press:
The Bible and the Family, Hazen G. Werner
Channels ofChallenge, Maxie D. Dunnam
Christ and the Hope of Glory, John Knox
The Christ of Every Road, E. Stanley Jones
Christ of the Indian Road, E. Stanley Jones
The Christian Agnostic, Leslie D. Weatherhead
Christian Love, Paul E. Johnson
The Church and Its Laity, Georgia Harkness
The Church in the Racially Changing Community, Wilson and Davis
Come with Faith, Michael Daves
Conversion, E. Stanley Jones
Devotions for Adult Groups, Wallace Fridy
The Eighth Fear and Other Sermons, Lewis R. Akers
Faith and Education, George A. Buttrick
Fight On! Fear Not!, Arthur J. Moore
The Funeral: Vestige or Value, Paul E. Irion
The Ghetto Of Indifference, Thomas J. Mullen
He Became Like Us, Carlyle Marney
How God Helps, Gaston Foote
How To Believe, Ralph W. Sockman
Immortal Tidings in Mortal Hands, Arthur J. Moore
The Interpreter's Bible, Volume 8, Arthur John Gossip, edited by George A.
Buttrick
James Bond's World of Values, Lycurgus M. Starkey, Jr.
Lamps for the Journey, Robert E. Keighton
Life Is Forever, Glenn Alty Crafts
Meditations for Adults, Wallace Fridy
The Modern Rival of Christian Faith, Georgia Harkness
More Than Survival, K. Morgan Edwards
No Saints Suddenly, Hazen G. Werner
On the Edge of the Absurd, Lance Webb
Preaching and Parish Renewal, Wallace Fisher
Religion In Life, Woodrow A. Geier
The Scout Law in Action, Walter MacPeek
Sermons Preached In A University Church, George A. Buttrick
Still We Can Hope, Joseph R. Sizoo
Structures of Prejudice, Carlyle Marney
The Suffering Servant, Carlyle Marney
This Is The Victory, Leslie D. Weatherhead
Thunder On The Mountain,!. Cecil Myers
The Time of Our Lives, Rita Snowden
Victorious Living, E. Stanley Jones
Victory Through Surrender, E. Stanley Jones
The Way,!. Stanley Jones
The Way of the Master, Emerson S. Colaw
When Crisis Comes, T. Cecil Myers
With Good Reason, Chester A. Pennington
Administrative Management
Advance
Alabama State Teachers Association Journal
W. H.Allen & Co.
My Darling Clementine, Jack Fishman
American Forests
American Home
American Judaism
American Opinion
The American Scholar
American School News
Anglican World
Architectual Forum
Argosy Magazine
Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine
Arkansas Methodist
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The Meaning of Being a Christian, Harry Emerson Fosdick
The Recovery of Life's Meaning, W. Paul Jones
Resources for Worship, Clarice M. Bowman
The Atlantic Monthly
Augsburg Publishing House:
And Pilate Asked . . ., W. A. Poovey, 1965
Of Test Tubes and Testaments, John R. Halum, 1965
Baby Care Manual
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The Holy Spirit in Your Life, Andrew W. Blackwood, Jr.
/ / / Were God, Don Mallough
Banking, Journal of the American Bankers Association
Beacon Hill Press:
Communion With Christ, Ivan Beals
The Hidings of God, Paul S. Rees
77;e Quest of the Spirit, Ralph Earle
Radiant Religion, W. T. Purkiser, editor
This Adventure Called Marriage, Milo Arnold
Your Life Make the Most oflt, J. B. Chapman
Bill Berger, Associates:
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Better Homes and Gardens
The Bobbs-Merrill Company:
I Am Only One Myrtle Barker
Near To The Heart of God, Cleland B. McAfee
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George Braziller:
The Words, Jean-Paul Sartre
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Challenges to the Cross, Wayne Dehoney
The Other Dimension, Ralph L. Murray
Points for Emphasis, Clifton J. Allen
Shields of Brass, C. Roy Angell
Brotherhood Journal, now, Baptist Men's Journal
Cadle Call
California Teachers Association Journal
Cambridge News
The Carolina Israelite
Catholic Layman
Changing Times
Channel Press:
Victory Over Suffering, A. Graham Ikin
Chicago Daily News
Childhood Education
Children
The Christian Athlete, Fellowship of Christian Athletes
The Christian Century
Christian Herald
Christian Life Magazine
Christian Observer
Christianity Today
Church Management
Church Militant
Clearing House
Clergy Review
Collins (Fontana):
Truth To Tell, Hugh Montefriore
Concern
Concordia:
Emerging Shapes of the Church, David S. Schuller
Conquest
Construction Digest
Convention Press:
Vital Problems in Christian Living, J. M. Price
The Critic
Thomas Y. Crowell Company:
Two Together: A Handbook for Your Marriage, Robert C. Dodds
Crown National Bureau
Cuna Mutual Newsletter
The John Day Company:
The Legacy of Nehru, K. Natwar-Singh
Teaching Moral and Spiritual Values, Grace Langdon and Irving W. Stout
Dell:
A Treasury of Faith, edited by Leon and Elfrieda McCauIey
The Denver Post Contemporary
Department of State Bulletin
Dialog
Dissent
Droke House Publishers
Doubleday &Co.:
How To Get Along With People, Michael Drury
Sex, Sin and Self Control, Norman Vincent Peale
The Renewal of Man, Alexander Miller
Under Orders: The Churches and Public Affairs, Roswell P. Barnes
What's The Difference, Louis Cassels
Your Pastors Problems, William E. Hulme
East Point Atlanta's Suburban Reporter
The Economist of London
The Ecumenical Review
Education
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company;
A Touch of Greatness, Harold E. Kohn
Adventures in Insight, Harold E. Kohn
Beneath the Cross of Jesus, R. E. O. White
The Challenge of World Communism in Asia, J. R. Saunders
God Is Dead: The Anatomy of a Slogan, Kenneth Hamilton
The Holy Spirit of God, W. H. Griffith Thomas
Life Crucified, Oswald C. J. Hoffmann
The Stranger of Galilee, R. E. O. White
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, Volume II, Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Thoughts Afield, Harold E. Kohn
Your Future Is Your Friend, Robert H. Schuller
77ie Ensign
Esquire
Eternity
The Evangel
Family Circle
Family Weekly
William Feather Magazine
Fellowship
Fireside Chat
Fontana (See Collins)
Forbes Magazine
Fortress Press:
The Ecology of Faith, Joseph Sittler
How The World Began, Helmut Thielicke
Fortune
The Forty-Niner
The Freeman
The Free Methodist
Friendship Press:
Must Walls Divide, Vincent Harding
These Rebellious Powers, Albert H. van den Heuvel
Good Business
Gospel Herald
Grit
Grosset & Dunlap, Inc.:
The Speaker's Desk Book, edited by Lawrence Hembree
Guideposts
Guild of The Christ Child: The Complete Address, " T h e True Function of the
Christian Church" by John Heuss, is available in any quantity at $.25 per
copy only from Guild of The Christ Child, West Cornwall, Connecticut
Harper's Magazine
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A Testament of Devotion, Thomas R. Kelley
Behold the Man, Toyohiko Kagawa
The Burden and the Glory, edited by Allan Nevins
But What About the People, Terry Sanford
By the Power of God, Samuel Shoemaker
Church in Disrepute, B. I. Bell
The Company of the Committed, D. Elton Trueblood
Congress: The Sapless Branch, Joseph S. Clark
Dimensions of Prayer, Douglas V. Steere
Dogmatics in Outline, Karl Barth
Event in Eternity, Paul Scherer
Faith and Reason, Nels F. S. Ferre
For Preachers and Other Sinners, Gerald Kennedy
Fresh Every Morning, Gerald Kennedy
The God-Evaders, Clyde Reid
God's New Age, Nels F. S. Ferre
Great Ideas of the Bible, Ryllis Goslin Lynip
The Heart of Man, Erich Fromm
How the Church Can Minister to the World Without Losing Itself, Langdon
Gilkey
The Hundredth Archbishop of Canterbury, James B. Simpson
I Stand By the Door, Helen Smith Shoemaker
In Holy Marriage, George E. Sweazey
Jungle Pilot, Russell Hitt
Life Looks Up, Charles Templeton
Live Your Life, Walter A. Heiby
The Logic of Belief, D. Elton Trueblood
The Luminous Darkness, Howard Thurman
Man Is Not Alone, Abraham J. Heschel
Man in the Struggle for Peace, Charles Malik
The Mind of Jesus, William Barclay
Minister's Shop-Talk, James W. Kennedy
The New Shape of American Religion, Martin E. Marty
New Strength for New Leadership, Erwin Haskell Schell
On Being A Real Person, Hatty Emerson Fosdick
On the Road to Christian Unity, Samuel McCrea Cavert
The Person Reborn, Paul Tournier
Personal Power Through Creative Selling, Elmer G. Letterman
The Predicament of Modern Man, D. Elton Trueblood
Questions People Ask, Robert J. McCracken
The Racial Problem in Christian Perspective, Kyle Haselden
Searchlights on Contemporary Theology, Nels F. S. Ferre
The Sense of Wonder, Rachel Carson
Shantung Compound, Langdon Gilkey
Theology of the Living Church, Harold De Wolf
To Make a Difference, edited by Otto Butz
The Waiting Father, Helmut Thielicke
What Is Sin? Whet Is Virtue?, Robert J. McCracken
With the Holy Spirit and With Fire, Samuel M. Shoemaker
Harvard University Press:
Theology and Modern Literature, Amos N. Wilder
Hawthorn Books, Inc.:
Good Old Marry compiled by George S. Caldwell
The Wit Of Prince Philip, compiled by Peter Butler
William Heinemann Ltd.:
The Trembling of a Leaf, William Somerset Maugham
Herald of Holiness
Herald Press:
Invitation to Discipleship, Myron S. Augsburger
High Points
Hoard's Dairyman
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The Christian Agnostic, Leslie T. Weatherhead
Jungle Pilot, Russell Hitt
Holiday
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Houghton Mifflin Company:
On Becoming A Person, Carl Rogers
Illinois Medical Journal

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Illustrated London News
Indiana Freemason
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Inter-Varsity Press:
How To Give Away Your Faith, Paul Little
Izaak Walton Magazine
Jewish Reconstructionist Press:

Judaism Under Freedom, Ira Eisenstein
Jonathan David Publishers:
Religion for Skeptics, William B. Silverman
Journal of American Association of University Women
Journal of Insurance Information
Journal of Negro Education, Winter, '65
Journal of Secondary Education
Judson Press:
Herein Is Love, Reuel Howe
Tensions in Modern Faith, Robert G. Middleton
The Kiwanis Magazine

John Knox Press:
Adventures in Parenthood, W. Taliaferro Thompson
I Loved This People, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Images Of Man, Roger Mehl
Out of the Whirlwind, William B. Ward
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The L &N Magazine

Ladies' Home Journal
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Library Journal
Light and Life Press:
Holiness the Finished Foundation, J. Paul Taylor
The Lion
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Harmony in Marriage, Leland F. Wood
Portraits in a Darkened Forest, Fulton J. Sheen
Modern Age, Summer, 1959
Moody Monthly
Morehouse-Barlow:
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For Christ's Sake, O. Fielding Clarke
Muhlenberg, see Fortress Press
William Morrow and Company:
Man's Right To Be Human, George Christian Anderson
Mutual Moments
National Business Woman
National Council of Churches
For the World, Colin Williams
National Education Association Journal
National Elementary Principal, Volume xliv, Number 4, February, 1965
National Observer
Nation's Business
Nazarene Preacher
New Republic
The New York Post
The New York Times
Nuggets
Ohio Schools
Oral Hygiene
Our Sunday Visitor
Parents' Magazine
Parks and Recreation
Peabody Journal of Education
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Phi Delta Kappa
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Pilgrimage to Humanity, Albert Schweitzer
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Prairie Farmer
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Distilled Wisdom, edited by Alfred A. Montapert
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My Shadow Ran Fast, Bill Sands
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Great Personalities of the Bible, William Sanford LaSor
Happy Is the Man . . ., Robert Ozment
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The Magnitude of Prayer, Kermit R. Olsen
The Mature Christian, A. Morgan Derham
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Just as a "Journey of a thousand miles begins with the. first

ADVENT (see "SPECIAL DAYS")

EASTER (see "CROSS")

JUDGMENT (see "DESTINY")

NEW YEAR'S (see "SPECIAL DAYS")

OLD AGE (see "AGE")

PEACE (see "HAPPINESS")

SABBATH (see "WORSHIP")

URBAN (see "CITEES")

Age is less a matter of years than thinking. Enthusiasm and

If age is unpleasant it is partly because we make it so. We shut

More than 64 per cent of the great achievements in this world

To learn to know one's self, to pursue the avenues of

A church that concentrates on staying out of the headlines

Apathy and numbness of soul are nothing else but creeping

Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm

Christians are going to have to rise above their preoccupation

Christ's call is to the heights, to things that are noble and

Civilizations decay and disintegrate when their leadership is

Constructive discontent with things as they are is a mainspring

F l e x i b i l i t y is heresy in a world where conformity

Involvement is the only indulgence that really satis-

I wonder if Christianity today has not become . . . a vast

Just as we must expose ourselves in twentieth-century terms to

Justice dies from the moment it becomes comfort, when it ceases

One of the great sources of moral and political breakdown in our

That the church is populated by members who could change

The battle is never won by those who are merely interested in

The forces of mediocrity and complacency are strong today and

The greatest prayer a church can pray today is "God let us be

The greatest public enemy is not the Mafia or communism — it is

The majority of today's church members refuse to care. In this

Too often we drift through the present crisis by reminiscing

What we need today is not another philosophy on how to

When a majority of people decline to participate responsibly in

When apathy has its grip on a man he "believes in nothing, cares

The Bible is unique in its complexity and its simplicity. It

I believe that the Bible is almost unknown today. It isn't a book

The Christian whose norm is Scripture must always have a

We should understand one thing: In these extraordinary times,

When one rereads the Bible as a Jew, Protestant, Orthodox or

When you start a Bible movement, it means revolution — a quiet

Biblical References: Ps. 107:19-20 Jn. 5:39

A civilization which ceases to understand the importance of

As far as Christian character is concerned, the church can never

Character includes a capacity to do large, unselfish things, not for

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the

Character is not made in a crisis — it is only displayed

Choice is at the heart of making character. — CLIFFORD E.

I've never felt that football built character. That is done by

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and

There is an element of suddenness about what life becomes; like

There is a sense in which character is primarily decisions. There is

We are developing a generation of money-rich and character-poor

We have forgotten that man is creating his tomorrow at every

Whatever it is that holds our interests suggests the quality of our

Christ's message was revolutionizing; His words simple, yet

He comes to us as one unknown, nameless, just as in an ancient

In every age, in every nation and in every culture, the Christian

Jesus achieved what He was sent to do because He was not

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