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Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.
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All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
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Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.
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What a testing of character adversity is.
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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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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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We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
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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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It is by actions and not by ideas that people really live.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.
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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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No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.
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We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new expression in terms of the framework which our new knowledge gives us. Science forces religion to deal with new ideas in the theoretical realm and new forces in the practical realm.
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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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Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
Harry Emerson Fosdick