Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick

Quotes

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

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

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

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

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

- 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

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 asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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