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Geistlicher, Lehrer, Autor, "Martin Luther" (USA, 1878 - 1969).

Harry Emerson Fosdick · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Harry Emerson Fosdick wäre heute 145 Jahre, 10 Monate, 23 Tage oder 53.288 Tage alt.

Geboren am 24.05.1878 in Buffalo
Gestorben am 05.10.1969 in Bronxville
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• Demokratie ist auf der Überzeugung aufgebaut, nach der gewöhnliche Menschen ungewöhnliche Fähigkeiten haben.
  • Mensch(en)

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• Freiheit ist immer gefährlich, aber sie ist das Sicherste, das wir haben.

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• Gott ist kein komischer Page, den man mit einer Klingel herbeirufen kann, damit er etwas bringt.

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• Man muss mit dem Mut des Abenteurers aus dem Besten in sich das Beste machen.
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  • Engagement
  • Erfolg

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• Menschen zu hassen ist, als ob man sein eigenes Haus abbrennt, um eine Ratte loszuwerden.

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• Wenn ein Mensch sagt, er kann ohne Religion auskommen, bedeutet es nur, daß er eine Art Religion hat, ohne die er auskommen kann.
  • Religion
  • Mensch(en)

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• Wir können nicht alle großartig sein. Aber wir können uns immer mit etwas verbinden, das großartig ist.

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• A man's life is made by the hours when great ideas lay hold upon him. And, except by way of living persons, there is no channel down which great ideas come oftener into human lives than by way of books.

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• A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar . . . but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.

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• Anyone who starts out to chase happiness will find it running away from him. We get happiness by indirection.

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• Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

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• Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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• Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man is his endowment with personal capacities. The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.

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• Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

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• I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it.

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• It is going to be a long, hard haul: it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!

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• No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever 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.

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• No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness.

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• One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it worth living.

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• One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.

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