I'm going to begin adding some quotations from those things that I read and hear in my study for sermons and writing.
"The time has come for Christians to extend hands of fellowship and recognition to each other and to find ways of working together for building up the church of God in human society. The walls of sectarianism that tend to divide and separate the people of God must be destroyed, for they are incompatible with the Christian gospel and the Christian concept of life."
“I don’t know how many books are in your library dealing with scripture but whoever wrote them their work will reflect their faith and their worship or their lack of it. It will reflect how they questioned the scriptures and the answers they found from them. Their work will show how they were addressed by scripture and how they answered and responded. Always behind the book is the writer. There is something being shown of the writer’s life. …this is true about any sermon we preach. They will reflect something about the scriptures… The greatest thing anyone can say to you after you preach is ‘thank God I see that text more clearly than I saw it.’”
James Earl Massey,
2010 Gardner C. Taylor Lectures--Duke Divinity School
"Whoever hears the message of the resurrection of Christ in such a way that in it the cry of the crucified has become inaudible, hears not the Gospel but a myth of the victors."
--Johann Baptist Metz in "The Church after Auschwitz"