God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
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Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings
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The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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God of grace and God of glory, On Thy people pour Thy power. Crown Thine ancient church's story, Bring her bud to glorious flower. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, For the facing of this hour, For the facing of this hour.
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Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.
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Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
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Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
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Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
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 Church offers comradeship with Jesus in all the affairs of life. It gives men a clearer understanding of the mind of Christ. It is through Christ that they come to know God. The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
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