Harry Emerson Fosdick quotes
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
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.
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
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.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
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.
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.
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.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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