Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship of the Spirit, the sovereignty of righteousness, the law of love, the glory of service, the coming of the Kingdom, the eternal hope- there was never an interpretation of life to compare with that.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

• Spirit
• Christ
• Law Of Love
• Life's meaning

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• I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.

  

  Imelda May
  • Money
  • Road
  • Doing

• I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Black

• I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Train
  • Three
  • Nervous

• In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Funny

• When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • People
  • Music
  • Mind

• Stop allowing yourself to focus on depressing life circumstances - including focusing on being depressed about your weight. All this negative focus will only lead you to feeling bummed and wanting to pig out. Instead, consciously focus on happy life circumstances you enjoy doing, and create more of them!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Bitter
  • Cake
  • Sweeter

• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Man

• Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Success
  • Goal
  • Success Is

• To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Goal
  • Human

• When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.

  

  John Travolta
  • People
  • Littles
  • Window

• She was poison in a pretty bottle.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Pretty
  • Battle
  • Poison

• It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it’s right, I use music in that light.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Music
  • Light

• These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Fields
  • Pioneers
  • Antidepressants

• Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.

  

  Qiu Jin
  • Women
  • Hero
  • Stuff

• An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Editing

• The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.

  

  K. Anders Ericsson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Practice

• Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is that you have to kind of keep reminding and showing people that you're improvising, because they won't believe you really.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Surprise
  • Spoil
  • Shakes

• Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Ideas
  • Spirit
  • Facts

• Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship of the Spirit, the sovereignty of righteousness, the law of love, the glory of service, the coming of the Kingdom, the eternal hope- there was never an interpretation of life to compare with that.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Spirit
  • Christ
  • Law Of Love