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.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  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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• 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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• 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.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Men

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

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

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Friendship, Apology, Men

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

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Bitterness, Release

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”

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• What a testing of character adversity is.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Character, Adversity, Testing

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2005). “The Manhood of the Master”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Health, Commitment

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

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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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• 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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• Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Retirement, Business

  "Wisdom for Our Time". Book by James Nelson, 1961.

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

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Spoiled, Endure, Can Do

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• Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Success, Encouraging, Congratulations

  "Personality and Life: A Practical Guide to Personality Improvement". Book by Jay N. Holliday, 1941.

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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.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Faith, Irritation

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• It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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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 character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Character, Tested

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

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