American - Clergyman | May 24, 1878 - October 5, 1969
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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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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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
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The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
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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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Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.
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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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A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
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