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

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  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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• 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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• Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

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  Imagination

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• Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself

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  Laughing, Laugh At Yourself

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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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• Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

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  Groups, Counseling, Preaching

  "Preaching as Counseling : The Unique Method of Harry Emerson Fosdick". Book by Edmund Holt Linn, 1966.

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• All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

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  Humble, Intelligent, Faith In God

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1961). “Dear Mr. Brown: letters to a person perplexed about religion”

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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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  Inspirational, Positive, Heredity And Environment

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

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• The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, The real handle facing a hazardous sit - to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

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  Adversity, Challenges, Despair

  "The Challenge of the Present Crisis".

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• [L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

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  Fractions, Integers, Cease

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

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• Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.

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  Atheism, Discouraged, Theoretical

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• Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

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  May, Opinion, Mistaken

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• Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

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  Change, Christian, Causes

  "He Came from Galilee". Book by Parker B. Brown, 1974.

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• It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!

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  Christian, Courage, Blessing

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• God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

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  Meaning Of Life, Limits, Possibility

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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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  Men, Mystery, Capacity

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

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• The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of its wonders is among the noblest poetry of the race, but today the new science has opened to our eyes vistas of mystery that transcend in their inexplicable marvel anything the ancients ever dreamed.

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  Dream, Jobs, Eye

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

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• The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

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  Change, Spiritual, Stars

  "The Living of These Days : An Autobiography". Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1956.

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• The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. 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.

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  Evil, Goal, Mind

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• He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

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  Family, Mother, Son

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• It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.

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  Ideas, People, Action

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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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  People, Golden, Golden Rule

  "Don't Try to Live Your Life in One Day!". Book by Johnny Ong, p. 171, 2008.

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• He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

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  4th Of July, Patriotic, Men

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