Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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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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One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.
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Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
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No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
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The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.
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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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Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
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It is by actions and not by ideas that people really live.
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Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes.
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When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That person may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen to the radio, but his or her mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C.
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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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No man need stay the way he is.
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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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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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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.
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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.