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The better we know Jesus, the more social do his thoughts and aims become.

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Under the warm breath of religious faith all social institutions become plastic.

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Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

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The twin-evil against which the prophets launched the condemnation of Jehovah was injustice and oppression.

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The most important effects of Christianity went out from it without the intention of the Church, or even against its will.

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We shall confine this brief study of the Old Testament to the prophets, because they are the beating heart of the Old Testament.

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We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.

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The fundamental purpose of Jesus was the establishment of the kingdom of God, which involved a thorough regeneration and reconstitution of social life.

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Ascetic Christianity called the world evil and left it. Humanity is waiting for a revolutionary Christianity which will call the world evil and change it.

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It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action

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The social revolution has been slow in reaching our country. We have been exempt, not because we had solved the problems, but because we had not yet confronted them.

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Christianity has been one of the most powerful causes of democracy, but the conscious influence of the Church has more widely been exerted against democracy than for it.

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The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

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The religious ideal of Israel was the theocracy. But the theocracy meant the complete penetration of the national life by religious morality. It meant politics in the name of God.

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Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.

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There is no question on which side the sympathy of the prophets was enlisted. Their protest against injustice and oppression, to the neglect of all other social evils, is almost monotonous.

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In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.

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