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It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
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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One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: He that is greatest among you shall be your servant. Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.
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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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No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
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He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
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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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Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
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No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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It is cynicism and fear that freeze life it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
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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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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
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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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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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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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