Sunday, November 6, 2011

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. 
Harry Emerson Fosdick 
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. 
Harry Emerson Fosdick 
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. 
Harry Emerson Fosdick 

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. 
Harry Emerson Fosdick 
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. 
Harry Emerson Fosdick 
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. 
Harry Emerson Fosdick 
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. 
Harry Emerson Fosdick 
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward. 
Harry Emerson Fosdick
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. 
Harry Emerson Fosdick 
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things. 
Harry Emerson Fosdick 

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