Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
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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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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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It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
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Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.
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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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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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No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
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No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.
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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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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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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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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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One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.
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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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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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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.