Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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• I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Money
  • Food
  • Know

• The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Long
  • School
  • Friends

• It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • American
  • Looks

• I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Never
  • Felt
  • Worse

• This is the first step in determining whether and how Congress can provide a solution.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • Congress
  • Solution
  • First Step

• The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Free

• We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people. We must never get out of touch with them if we are going to use the Word of God skillfully amongst them and if the Holy Spirit is to apply the Word of God through us.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • God
  • Word Of God

• Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!

  

  Lady Hester Stanhope
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Writing
  • Dialogue
  • Contradicting

• It does not matter the circumstances, trials, or challenges that might surround us; an understanding of the doctrine of Christ and His Atonement will be the source of our strength and peace-yes, brothers and sisters, that internal tranquility that is born of the Spirit and which the Lord gives to His faithful Saints.

  

  Benjamin de Hoyos
  • Spirit
  • Challenges
  • Christ

• Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Done
  • High
  • Sun

• I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.

  

  Tim Scott
  • Problem
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism

• What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other says, "Not good for passage". Works are not good for passage; but faith detached from works is not saving faith.

  

  Charles Caldwell Ryrie
  • Christian
  • Religion
  • Prayer

• Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

  

  Joseph Wood Krutch
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Excuses

• A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Christ
  • Sermon
  • Spiritual goods