Halford E. Luccock
Halford Edward Luccock was a prominent American Methodist minister and professor of homiletics at Yale Divinity School.
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"There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be. It is the danger of considering o…"
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"We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people."
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