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Harry Emerson Fosdick

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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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    All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

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    All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

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    A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

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    A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar ... but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.

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    Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.

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    Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

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    Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

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    Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship of the Spirit, the sovereignty of righteousness, the law of love, the glory of service, the coming of the Kingdom, the eternal hope- there was never an interpretation of life to compare with that.

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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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    Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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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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    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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    Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

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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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    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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    Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

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    Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

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    Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

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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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    Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

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    God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

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    God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

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    Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

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    Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

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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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    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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    Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

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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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    I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

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    In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray.

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    I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

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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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    It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!

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    It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

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    It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

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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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    Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

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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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    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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    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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    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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    Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.

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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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    No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

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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 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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    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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    No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.