Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
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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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No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
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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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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.
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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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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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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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It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
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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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What a testing of character adversity is.
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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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Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
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We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
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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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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.