Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Fear imprisons faith liberates fear paralyzes faith empowers fear disheartens faith encourages fear sickens faith heals fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world-making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Liberty is always dangerous but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Nothing in human life least of all in religion is ever right until it is beautiful.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Nothing in human life least of all in religion is ever right until it is beautiful.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Fear imprisons faith liberates fear paralyzes faith empowers fear disheartens faith encourages fear sickens faith heals fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused dedicated disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but…make a pearl.-In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis
Harry Emerson Fosdick