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Harry Emerson Fosdick Author

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: May 24, 1878
  • Died: Oct 5, 1969

Harry Emerson Fosdick was an American pastor. Fosdick became a central figure in the "Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy" within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th Century. Although a Baptist, he was guest preacher in New York City at First Presbyterian Church on West Twelfth Street, Manhattan and then at the historic, inter-denominational Riverside Church, founded by philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. being alone & success

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The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. friendship

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

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