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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.
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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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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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