Harry Emerson Fosdick quotes - page 2

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. View quote
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I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another. View quote
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I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. View quote
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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses. View quote
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We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great. View quote
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The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. View quote
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Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings. View quote
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Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself. View quote
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It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young. View quote
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Always take a job that is too big for you. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)
The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a 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, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it. View quote
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It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up. View quote
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Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory. View quote
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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. View quote
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Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life. View quote
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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person. View quote
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One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement 'He that is greatest among you shall be your servant.' Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that. View quote
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Opinions may be mistaken; love never is. View quote
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It is going to be a long, hard haul it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations. View quote
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Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)
The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance. View quote
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The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain. View quote
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Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated characternothing See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re a serious cripple who succeeded. View quote
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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught. View quote
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