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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. – Harvey Cox

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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need. – Harvey Cox

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Religion
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Harvey Cox
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In West Africa, when a person in the village becomes sick, the Healer will ask them, “When was the last time you sang? When was the last time that you danced? When was the last time that you shared a story?” – Harvey Cox

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I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men. – Richard Baxter

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Id rather see a sermon than hear one any day; Id rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eyes a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but examples always clear. – Edgar A. Guest

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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Evangelism as the New Testament describes it is not childs play. Evangelism is work, often hard work. Yet it is not drudgery. It puts person in good humor, and makes him truly human. – Oswald C. Hoffman

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