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Fearr imprisons, faith liberates fear paralyzes, faith empowers fear disheartens, faith encourages fear sickens, faith heals fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes.
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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Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.
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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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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
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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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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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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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No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
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Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself
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Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.
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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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