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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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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Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.
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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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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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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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Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.
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Always take a job that is too big for you.
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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us
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It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
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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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No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
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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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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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