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Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
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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Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.
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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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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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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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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
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The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling preaching is personal counseling on a group basis personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.
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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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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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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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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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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.
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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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Democracy is not simply a political system it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
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Fearr imprisons, faith liberates fear paralyzes, faith empowers fear disheartens, faith encourages fear sickens, faith heals fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes.
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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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