"God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom……" — Harry Emerson Fosdick
"God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things."
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91 Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
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- Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may…
- No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
- The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous…
- We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give…
- Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans…
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- Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not…
- Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation…
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