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• No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Success, Stress, Caring

  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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• 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.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Men, Law, Fatherhood

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• The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Friendship, Jesus, Men

  "The American Scrap Book: The Year's Golden Harvest on Thought and Achievement". Book published by Wise, 1928.

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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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• Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

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  Hard Work, Fighting, Men

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

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  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.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Faith, Irritation

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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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• No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

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  Men

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• 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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• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Depression, Teaching

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Freedom, Democracies Have, People

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

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

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Power

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”

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

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  Victory, Pleasure

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• No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

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  Friendship, Apology, Men

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.174, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.

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  Spiritual, Struggle, Hospitality

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

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Spring, Persons, Altruism

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• Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Laughing, Laugh At Yourself

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