Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes & Quotations
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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
Preaching is personal counselling on a group basis. - 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. - 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 tunnelled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side, the 'un-searchable riches of Christ' are actually transported into personal lives upon the other. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyses life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world, making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world, making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
When we try to bring about change in our societies, we are treated first with indifference, then with ridicule, then with abuse and then with oppression. And finally, the greatest challenge is thrown at us: we are treated with respect. This is the most dangerous stage. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. - 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. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Preaching is personal counselling on a group basis. - 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. - 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 tunnelled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side, the 'un-searchable riches of Christ' are actually transported into personal lives upon the other. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyses life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world, making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world, making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
When we try to bring about change in our societies, we are treated first with indifference, then with ridicule, then with abuse and then with oppression. And finally, the greatest challenge is thrown at us: we are treated with respect. This is the most dangerous stage. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. - 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. - Harry Emerson Fosdick