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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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Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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It is cynicism and fear that freeze life it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
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It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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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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Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.
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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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