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• One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.

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  Jesus, Earth, Chance

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• Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

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  Self, Trying, Done

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”

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• Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

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  Life, Encouraging, Spiritual

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• The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.

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  Stars, Distance, Light

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

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• The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.

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  Running, Circles, Groups

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

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• ...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet now that it is here, one suspects that Hitler never could have consolidated his totalitarian control over Germany without its use. One never can tell what hands will reach out to lay hold on scientific gifts, or to what employment they will be put. Ever the old barbarian emerges, destructively using the new civilization.

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  Science, Hands, Civilization

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

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• Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Religion, Human Life

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• Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded.

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  Character, Light, Soul

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• Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

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  Spring, Political, Democracy

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1931). “Adventurous Religion”

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• Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

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  Loyalty, Honesty, Cowardice

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1952). “A faith for tough times”

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• It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

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  Faith, Cynicism, Release

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• Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.

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  Faith, Mad

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

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• A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.

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  Spiritual, Engineering, Riches

  Lionel Crocker, Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “Harry Emerson Fosdick's art of preaching: an anthology”, Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd

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• My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church.

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  Thinking, Challenges, Sublime

  Harry Emerson Fosdick “Miscellaneous Sermons”

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• I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

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  War, Lying, Support

  "The Secret of Victorious Living: Sermons on Christianity Today". Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1934.

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• One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

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  Lasts, Strange, Dropping

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

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• I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

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  Peace, Hate, War

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• A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar ... but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.

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  Religious, Believe, Men

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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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  Change, God, Stars

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• Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

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  Science, Men, Years

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

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• The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

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  Character, Trying, Quality

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• The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

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  Democracy, Dictator, Judgment

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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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  Spring, Mean, Science

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

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• We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new expression in terms of the framework which our new knowledge gives us. Science forces religion to deal with new ideas in the theoretical realm and new forces in the practical realm.

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  Spiritual, Knowledge, Science

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• I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

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  Peace, Hate, War

  Sermon in New York on Armistice Day 1933, in Secret of Victorious Living (1934) p. 97

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