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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
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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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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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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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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