Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
¶ (Attributed)
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Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) American clergyman, author, teacher
God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done.
¶ (Attributed)
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.
¶ (Attributed)
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
¶ (Attributed)
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
¶ (Attributed)
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
¶ (Attributed)
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
¶ (Attributed)
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.
¶ Living Under Tension (1941)
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.
¶ Riverside Sermons, "The Mystery of Life" (1958)
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 Living of These Days (1956)
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