Top 80 Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes (2024 Update)
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Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “Our power is not so much in us as through us.”

51. “Our power is not so much in us as through us.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.”

52. “We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it. – Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.”

53. “No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it. – Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.”

54. “Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it’s as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.”

55. “Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it’s as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.”

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

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.”

57. “A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded.”

58. “Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “No one can be wrong with man and right with God.”

59. “No one can be wrong with man and right with God.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “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.”

60. “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.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “Prayer, in this more inclusive sense, is the settled craving of a man’s heart, good or bad, his inward love and determining desire.”

61. “Prayer, in this more inclusive sense, is the settled craving of a man’s heart, good or bad, his inward love and determining desire.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.”

62. “One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.”

63. “Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.”

64. “It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men’s mothers.”

65. “He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men’s mothers.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.”

66. “We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “Men are given to complaining of unanswered prayer, but the great disasters are due to answered prayers.”

67. “Men are given to complaining of unanswered prayer, but the great disasters are due to answered prayers.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.”

68. “No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.”

69. “God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.”

70. “Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.”

71. “The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.”

72. “I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.”

73. “Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.”

74. “The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.”

75. “The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.”

76. “The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.”

77. “One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person’s place.”

78. “All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person’s place.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.”

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

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “Once when Ole Bull, the great violinist, was giving a concert in Paris, his “A” string snapped and he transposed the composition and finished it on three strings. That is life- to have your “A” string snap and finish on three strings.”

80. “Once when Ole Bull, the great violinist, was giving a concert in Paris, his “A” string snapped and he transposed the composition and finished it on three strings. That is life- to have your “A” string snap and finish on three strings.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.”

81. “The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.”

82. “Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the ‘unsearchable riches of Christ’ – are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.”

83. “A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the ‘unsearchable riches of Christ’ – are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “There is one sense, however, in which answer to prayer can always be depended on, if a man has kept his life at all in harmony with God. Even when God cannot answer affirmatively the man’s petition he can answer the man.”

84. “There is one sense, however, in which answer to prayer can always be depended on, if a man has kept his life at all in harmony with God. Even when God cannot answer affirmatively the man’s petition he can answer the man.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quote: “There are many prayers that God must not answer, but there are no good prayers which God cannot answer.”

85. “There are many prayers that God must not answer, but there are no good prayers which God cannot answer.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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