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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The extraordinary thing about the oyster is when irritations get into his shell. When he cannot get rid of them, he uses the irritations to do the loveliest thing an oyster has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives . . . make a pearl.Harry Emerson Fosdick
Always take a job that is too big for you.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
One watches people starting out in life quite adequately, handling life with active vigor, as they run, one after another, into experiences where something deeper than vigor is needed. Serious failure, for example. Some night in his lifetime everyone come.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about his environment and the forces by which he is surrounded, gives life its meaning and purpose, and clothes it with final dignity.... And yet we know, deep in our hearts, that knowledge is not enough.... Unless we can anchor our knowledge to moral purposes, the ultimate result will be dust and ashes dust and ashes that will bury the hopes and monuments of men beyond recovery.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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