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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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What a testing of character adversity is.
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The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.
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Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
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Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.
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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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We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
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He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
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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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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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