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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
Emerson
Harry
Stress
Inner
Peace

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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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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 of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: He that is greatest among you shall be your servant. Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.
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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
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No man is the whole of himself his friends are the rest of him.
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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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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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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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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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Always take a job that is too big for you.
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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
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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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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
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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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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier
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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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Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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