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" Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. "

Phillips Brooks
" Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. "

Phillips Brooks
" A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side - the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick
" A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick
" Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick
" Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick
" Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. "

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

Harry Emerson Fosdick
" Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick
" He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick
" He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick
" 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. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick
" I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses. "

Harry Emerson Fosdick
" I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. "

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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