Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick

Quotes

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

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

- 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

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

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

- 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

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