Quotes Harry Emerson Fosdick

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package....

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it....

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor eve...

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extrao...

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire...

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man i...

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that...

God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button ...

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button t...

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid...

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, canno...

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it ...

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place i...

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who fac...

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on an...

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of ...

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded b...

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live....

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we h...

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can y...

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do...

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or g...

Our power is not so much in us as through us....

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will con...

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis....