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• Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier

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  Encouragement, Tragedy, Chance

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• Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship of the Spirit, the sovereignty of righteousness, the law of love, the glory of service, the coming of the Kingdom, the eternal hope- there was never an interpretation of life to compare with that.

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  Men, Law, Fatherhood

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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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  Attitude, Prayer, Done

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.59, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

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  Inspirational, Life, Book

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• War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

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  Inspirational, Fear, War

  "On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity".

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• No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.

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  Spiritual, Spring, Struggle

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1946). “On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity”, New York ; London [Eng.] : Harper & Brothers

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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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  Spoiled, Endure, Can Do

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• God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

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  God, Faith, Prayer

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• Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

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  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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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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  Love, Courage, Strong

  "The Christian Herald", Vol. 92, p. 72, 1969.

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• Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

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  Life, Retirement, Business

  "Wisdom for Our Time". Book by James Nelson, 1961.

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• The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.

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  Love, Faith, Irritation

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• No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

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  Character, Tested

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2005). “The Manhood of the Master”, p.67, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  "Harry Emerson Fosdick's art of preaching: an anthology".

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• No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

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  Character, Tests, Virtue

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “The Real Problems of Real People: Solutions for Christians”

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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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  Motivational, Eye, Winning

  "Personality and Life : A Practical Guide to Personality Improvement". Book by Jay N. Holliday, 1941.

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• Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.

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  Energy, Language, Speak

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• What a testing of character adversity is.

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  Character, Adversity, Testing

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2005). “The Manhood of the Master”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

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  Spring, Persons, Altruism

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• One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.

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  Life Worth Living, Worth Living

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• Our power is not so much in us as through us.

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  Power

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”

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• One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

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  Science, Civilization, Shepherds

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

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• Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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  Freedom, Democracies Have, People

  "The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1937.

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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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  Friendship, Happy Life, Giving

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• Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.

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  Victory, Pleasure

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