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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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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H. E. Fosdick
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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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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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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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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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What a testing of character adversity is.
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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
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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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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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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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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
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No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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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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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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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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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Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself
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