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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
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Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.
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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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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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