Best Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick (Top 10)
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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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.
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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.
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A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
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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.
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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.
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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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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
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Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
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More Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
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Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
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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.
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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
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Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.
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Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
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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.
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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
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The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
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He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
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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 game in the world - making the most of one's best.
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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
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The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
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All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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