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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.
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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Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: Not my will, but thine, be done. What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?
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When you hear a person say, I hate, adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That person may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen to the radio, but his or her mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C.
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Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.
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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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The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.
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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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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.
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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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Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.
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One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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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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