Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated characternothing 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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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.Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eye.
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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.
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