Nothing else matters much. . . not wealth, nor learning, nor even health. . . without this gift: … - Harry Emerson Fosdick

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I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Nothing else matters much. . . not wealth, nor learning, nor even health. . . without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

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Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! 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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One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

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Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.

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