Quotemeal: Jan. 3rd, 1959

Saturday, January 3, 1959

"Christians are supposed to not merely endure change, not even to profit by it, but to cause it."
— Henry Emerson Fosdick

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Illustration of Henry Emerson Fosdick — "Christians are supposed to not merely endure change, not even to profit by it, but to cause it."

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