Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people...

Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined....

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adv...

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confi...

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not l...

Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.

Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mys...

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small ...

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness...

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

Liberty is always dangerous but it is the safest thing we have.

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.

Life asks not merely what you can do it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Fear imprisons faith liberates fear paralyzes faith empowers fear disheartens faith encourages ...

Nothing in human life least of all in religion is ever right until it is beautiful.