David H. C. Read

David Haxton Carswell Read (2 January 1910 – 7 January 2001) was a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman and author. Quotes I learned, when a university chaplain, that the student who asked where Cain got his wife could really be wanting to know whether he should sleep with his girlfriend. Preaching about the Needs of Real People (1988), p. 71; quoted by Calvin Miller in Spirit, Word, and Story: A Philosophy of Preaching (1989), p. 87, and The Sermon Maker: Tales of a Transformed Preacher (2009), p. 46. When you pray is there anyone there listening? Start of the sermon "What Response to Our Prayers?", as quoted by Eugene L. Lowry in The Homiletical Plot: The Sermon as Narrative Art Form (2001), p. 36 Quotes about Read With the best will in the world, I could not bear a second-rate sermon. [...] Now I have found a church where I do not squirm in my seat, but listen in rapt attention from beginning to end. After having heard the first sermon by Dr. David Read, I went Sunday after Sunday, because I was richly rewarded every time. What a feeling of relief to be allowed to come near to God and worship as I always wanted to worship! [...] It therefore became a pleasure to go to church because to be in church was to be near the true spirit of Jesus Christ. Lin Yutang, From Pagan to Christian (1960), pp. 237–238; quoted by Rain Yang Liu in "Lin Yutang: Astride the Cultures of East and West", published in Salt and Light, Vol. III (2011), p. 172. External links Category:1910 births Category:2001 deaths Category:Clergy Category:Presbyterians Category:Non-fiction authors from Scotland