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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
Writer
Buffalo
New York
H. E. Fosdick
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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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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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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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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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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
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One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend 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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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
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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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Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
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Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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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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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
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