Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes About Faith

Quotes about: Faith

• 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”

• 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

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

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  God, Faith, Prayer

• 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.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Faith, Irritation

• Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Faith, Mad

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

• It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Faith, Cynicism, Release

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