Words matter. These are the best Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great.
Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
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.
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
