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Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
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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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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No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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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.
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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 by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
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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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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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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 man is the whole of himself his friends are the rest of him.
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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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Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
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Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.
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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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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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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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Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself
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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us
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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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