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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend 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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Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.
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He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
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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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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.
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He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
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A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.
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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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Always take a job that is too big for you.
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