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| Harry Emerson Fosdick
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. 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 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. Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. 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 cynicism and fear that freezes life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free. No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara ever turned light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness. Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis. 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. |
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