"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded…" — Harry Emerson Fosdick

"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it."

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Harry Emerson Fosdick was an American Mainline Protestant 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 called to serve as pastor, in New York City, at First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan's West Village, and then at the historic, inter-denominational Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, Manhattan.

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