Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
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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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Fear 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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No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.
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It is by actions and not by ideas that people really live.
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No man need stay the way he is.
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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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It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
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One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.
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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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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
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The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, The real handle facing a hazardous sit - to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.
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All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
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Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.
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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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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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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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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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What a testing of character adversity is.