"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
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"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it."
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"[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer."
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"Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage."
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"The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him."
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"War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst."
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"God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things."
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"The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of [a] stick picks up the other.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to."
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"No man need stay the way he is."
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"Fearr imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes."
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"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."
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"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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"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."
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"Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could."
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"I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it."
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"Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship of the Spirit, the sovereignty of righteousness, the law of love, the glory of service, the coming of the Kingdom, the eternal hope- there was never an interpretation of life to compare with that."
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"I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses."
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"Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded."
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"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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"One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want."
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