Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
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No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
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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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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
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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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No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.
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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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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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Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
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All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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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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Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.
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One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.
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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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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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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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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
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What a testing of character adversity is.