Harry Emerson Fosdick

(566 votes)   Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878-1969, American Minister

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(224 votes)   Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878-1969, American Minister

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(176 votes)   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
1878-1969, American Minister

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(171 votes)   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

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(134 votes)   Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878-1969, American Minister

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(123 votes)   God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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(118 votes)   No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878-1969, American Minister

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(118 votes)   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.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878-1969, American Minister

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(117 votes)   The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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(116 votes)   Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878-1969, American Minister

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(116 votes)   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.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878-1969, American Minister

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(106 votes)   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
1878-1969, American Minister

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(104 votes)   Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

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(98 votes)   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
1878-1969, American Minister

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(87 votes)   Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

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