Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.
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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.Harry Emerson Fosdick
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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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.
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
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
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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