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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.
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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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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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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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The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.
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What a testing of character adversity is.
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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us
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