Harry Emerson Fosdick

Clergyman

1878-05-24

Books by Harry Emerson Fosdick

The meaning of prayer
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The Man from Nazareth as His contemporaries saw Him
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On being a real person
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Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
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The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
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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.
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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things.
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No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.
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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.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
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Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
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The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
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