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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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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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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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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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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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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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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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What a testing of character adversity is.
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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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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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Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
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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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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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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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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.
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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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