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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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One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: He that is greatest among you shall be your servant. Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.
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Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.
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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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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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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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Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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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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It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.
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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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