Harry Emerson Fosdick quotes

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. (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. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Our power is not so much in us as through us. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick