The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
From 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.
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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.
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
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