Halford luccock wikipedia

Halford Edward Luccock (11 March1885 – 6 November1960) was a prominent American Methodist minister and professor of Homiletics at Yale's Divinity School (1928 - 1953).

Quotes

• Expressions of sharp and even violentcriticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought. If caustic criticism of religious institutions and practices is irreligious, then Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus were very irreligious men.

  In fact, that is exactly what many of their contemporaries took them to be.

  • The Questing Spirit: Religion in the Literature of Our Time (1947), p. 42

• To the faith that "God is love" and that love is the power that can save the world, many give the jaunty answer "What nonsense!" Very well.

  But one of the most impressive sights of 1951 was that of an elderly man giving a lecture at Columbia University. He was a man not ordinarily accounted one of the twelve disciples, and I am not baptizin