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No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Age: 91 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 24
Died: 1969
Died: October 5
Author
Preacher
Theologian
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Buffalo
New York
H. E. Fosdick
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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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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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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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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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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church.
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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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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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Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.
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It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
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