Harry Emerson Fosdick
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.Collection: Power
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.Collection: Business
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.Collection: Love
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Courage
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.Collection: Best
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.Collection: God
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.Collection: Strength
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.Collection: Success
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.Collection: Change
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.Collection: Friendship
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
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.
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
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.
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.
We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great.
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.
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.
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.Collection: Love
It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.Collection: Young
Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.Collection: Wings
No one can be wrong with man and right with God.Collection: Men
Always take a job that is too big for you.Collection: Jobs
The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.Collection: Life
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.Collection: Life
Fearr imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes.Collection: Faith
No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.Collection: Friendship
Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.Collection: Attitude
No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.Collection: Character
Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.Collection: Energy
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.Collection: Inspirational
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.Collection: Spiritual
No man need stay the way he is.Collection: Men
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.Collection: Motivational
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.Collection: Peace
Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?Collection: Spring
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet now that it is here, one suspects that Hitler never could have consolidated his totalitarian control over Germany without its use. One never can tell what hands will reach out to lay hold on scientific gifts, or to what employment they will be put. Ever the old barbarian emerges, destructively using the new civilization.Collection: Science
It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!Collection: Christian