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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
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Life asks not merely what you can do it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
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Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.
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No man is the whole of himself his friends are the rest of him.
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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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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 one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
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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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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.
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What a testing of character adversity is.
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Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.
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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
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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 life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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