Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

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• Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Funny, Sad

  "As I See Religion". Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1932.

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• 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.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”

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• A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Conceited, Persons, Small Packages

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “The Real Problems of Real People: Solutions for Christians”

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• It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Young, Grows, Magnificent

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• 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 until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

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  Life, Motivational, Horse

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2008). “Answers to Real Problems: Harry Emerson Fosdick Speaks to Our Time: Selected Sermons of Harry Emerson Fosdick”, p.160, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  "Harry Emerson Fosdick's art of preaching: an anthology".

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• Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Wings, Weight, Burden

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• No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

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  Men

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Always take a job that is too big for you.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Jobs, Bigs

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• Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

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  Love, Bitterness, Release

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”

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• The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Beauty, Death

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• No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

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  Life, Health, Commitment

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

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

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  God, Faith, Prayer

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• No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

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  Friendship, Apology, Men

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.174, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Fearr imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Faith, Fear, Empowering

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• Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Attitude, Prayer, Done

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.59, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.

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  Energy, Language, Speak

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• We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

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• No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

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  Character, Tested

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2005). “The Manhood of the Master”, p.67, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Encouragement, Tragedy, Chance

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• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Depression, Teaching

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

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  Letting Go, Optimism, Progress

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1946). “On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity”, New York ; London [Eng.] : Harper & Brothers

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• The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.

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  Love, Faith, Irritation

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• No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Character, Tests, Virtue

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “The Real Problems of Real People: Solutions for Christians”

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