Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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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.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
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The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, The real handle facing a hazardous sit - to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.
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It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
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Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.
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Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.
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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
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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.
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Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
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All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
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Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?
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No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.
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Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
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What a testing of character adversity is.
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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
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One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.