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He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
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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Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier
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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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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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Democracy is not simply a political system it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
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No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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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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The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.
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Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.
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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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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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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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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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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church.
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A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.
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He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
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