Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.Harry Emerson Fosdick
We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
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
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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