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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.
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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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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Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.
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Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
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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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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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Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
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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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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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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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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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The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling preaching is personal counseling on a group basis personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.
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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 asks not merely what you can do it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
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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.
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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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