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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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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One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: He that is greatest among you shall be your servant. Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.
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Fearr imprisons, faith liberates fear paralyzes, faith empowers fear disheartens, faith encourages fear sickens, faith heals fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes.
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He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
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Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself
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Life asks not merely what you can do it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
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Democracy is not simply a political system it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
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What a testing of character adversity is.
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The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.
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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.
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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
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Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
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Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
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Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
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We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
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No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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