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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
God
Limits
Mortality
Possibilities
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
War
Hate
Starvation
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Love
Life
Bitterness
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Success
Winning
Will
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
People
Conviction
Democracy
Possibilities
Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Preaching
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.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
People
The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
World
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
War
Man
Tragedy
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Friendship
Men
Discipline
Results
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Change
Cause
Profit