Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
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The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is going to be a long, hard haul it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
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