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No man is the whole of himself his friends are the rest of 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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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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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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Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
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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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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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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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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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It is cynicism and fear that freeze life it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
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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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The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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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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Life asks not merely what you can do it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
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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.
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No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
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One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
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