Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick

“The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an o...”

“Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. ”

“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 ...”

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

“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 un...”

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

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

“Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.”

“Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”

“Fear imprisons faith liberates fear paralyzes faith empowers fear disheartens faith encourages fear sickens faith heals fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.”

“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 lo...”

“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.”

“Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.”

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

“All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.”

“Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.”

“Nothing in human life least of all in religion is ever right until it is beautiful.”

“Liberty is always dangerous but it is the safest thing we have.”

“Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting...”

“Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to. ”