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
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Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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.
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
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.
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.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
The half is greater than the whole.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
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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