Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
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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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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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One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.
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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
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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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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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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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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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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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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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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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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 man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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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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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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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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Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.