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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
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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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.
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Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
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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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The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling preaching is personal counseling on a group basis personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.
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It is cynicism and fear that freeze life it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
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The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.
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It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
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No man is the whole of himself his friends are the rest of him.
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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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