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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.
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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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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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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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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The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.
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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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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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We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
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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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No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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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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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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Always take a job that is too big for you.
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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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