Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes (20 quotations)
1. 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
2. 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. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
3. Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
4. Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
5. Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
6. God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
7. God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
8. Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
9. He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
10. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
11. He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
12. Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
13. 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. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
14. It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
15. Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
16. 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. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
17. Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
18. 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. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
19. The half is greater than the whole. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
20. 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. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
2. 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. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
3. Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
4. Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
5. Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
6. God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
7. God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
8. Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
9. He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
10. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
11. He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
12. Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
13. 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. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
14. It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
15. Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
16. 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. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
17. Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
18. 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. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
19. The half is greater than the whole. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
20. 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. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
