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Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.
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On Being Fit to Live With : Sermons on Post-War Christianity (1946)

 

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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