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«The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.»
«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.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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calamity, characteristics, hardihood, hardships, mixture, mysterious, soil
«Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Religion
«God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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God
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bell, button, buttoned, buttoning, buttons, button up, cosmic, on the button
«The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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«I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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democracies, dictatorships, hatreds, propagated, propagates, propagating, sanction, sanctioned, stalked, stalking, stalks, undying
«Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.»
«Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.»
«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.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Sermons
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bridged, chasm, chasms, goods, operation, sermon, The Spiritual, transport, transported, transporting, transports
«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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