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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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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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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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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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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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Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier
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Always take a job that is too big for you.
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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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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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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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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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He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
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No man is the whole of himself his friends are the rest of him.
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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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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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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
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