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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Age: 91 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 24
Died: 1969
Died: October 5
Author
Preacher
Theologian
Writer
Buffalo
New York
H. E. Fosdick
Inner
Peace
Emerson
Harry
Stress

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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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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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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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What a testing of character adversity is.
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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
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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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The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.
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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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No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
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It is cynicism and fear that freeze life it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
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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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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
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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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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
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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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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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One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
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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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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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