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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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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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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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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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No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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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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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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Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.
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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
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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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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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Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself
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It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
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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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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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Life asks not merely what you can do it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
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No man is the whole of himself his friends are the rest of him.
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