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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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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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He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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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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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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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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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 be wrong with man and right with God.
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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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No man is the whole of himself his friends are the rest of him.
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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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My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church.
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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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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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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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