Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• 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

• 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”

• 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.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Courage, Strong

  "The Christian Herald", Vol. 92, p. 72, 1969.

• 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

• Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Bitterness, Release

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”

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