The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, butmake a pearl.-In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis

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Harry Emerson Fosdick was a 19th-century American pastor and controversialist. 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. Read more on Wikipedia →

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