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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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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 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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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
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The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling preaching is personal counseling on a group basis personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.
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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
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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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