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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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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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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
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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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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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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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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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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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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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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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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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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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