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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.
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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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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One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: He that is greatest among you shall be your servant. Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.
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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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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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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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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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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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He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
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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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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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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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Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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