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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Age: 91 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 24
Died: 1969
Died: October 5
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Preacher
Theologian
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Buffalo
New York
H. E. Fosdick
Change
Christians
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Profit
Endure
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Merely
Cause
Causes
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