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The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

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Congregational life wherein each member has his opportunity to contribute to the life of the whole body, those gifts with which the Spirit endows him, is as much of the essence of the Church as are ministry and sacraments.

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Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy. The news that the rejected and crucified Jesus is alive is something that cannot possibly be suppressed. It must be told. Who could be silent about such a fact? The mission of the Church in the pages of the New Testament is like the fallout from a vast explosion, a radioactive fallout which is not lethal but life-giving.

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Live in the kingdom of God in such a way that it provokes questions for which the gospel is the answer.

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I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

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The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.

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It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.

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