Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
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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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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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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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One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.
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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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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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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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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
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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 by actions and not by ideas that people really live.
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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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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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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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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.
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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.