Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Fear imprisons faith liberates fear paralyzes faith empowers fear disheartens faith encourages fear sickens faith heals fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.

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.

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.

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other persons place.

Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

Nothing in human life least of all in religion is ever right until it is beautiful.

Liberty is always dangerous but it is the safest thing we have.

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 ones best.

Dont simply retire from something have something to retire to.

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Life asks not merely what you can do it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

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

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.