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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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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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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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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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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause 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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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
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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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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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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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Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
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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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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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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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He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
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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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