Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick

Quotes

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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.

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

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

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

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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.

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

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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