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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.

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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Preacher
Theologian
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Buffalo
New York
H. E. Fosdick
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Secondarily
Primarily
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Religion
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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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