Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes - Famous Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
Born: 1878-05-24
Died: 1969-10-05
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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
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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.
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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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Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.
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Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.
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He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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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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Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
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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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No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
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The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
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The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
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