"Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him."

"Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?"

"Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone."

"The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other."

"God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas."

"Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched."

"Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do."

"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you."