Famous Quotes / Harry Emerson Fosdick
30 Quotations by Harry Emerson Fosdick
- 1. A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on ...
- 2. A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
- 3. All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
- 4. Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
- 5. But no one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it. Peace is a margi ...
- 6. Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
- 7. Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people ...
- 8. Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
- 9. Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; ...
- 10. God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.
- 11. Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
- 12. He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determi ...
- 13. He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mys ...
- 14. Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward ...
- 15. I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small ...
- 16. It is cynicism and fear that freezes life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free
- 17. It is magnificent to grow old if one keeps young.
- 18. Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
- 19. Money is a person's personal energy reduced to portable form. It can go where he could not go; speak ...
- 20. No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas ever drives anything until it is conf ...