Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life... — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share
It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share
“Whatever the situation and however disheartening it may be, it is a great hour when a man ceases adopting difficulties as an excuse for… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share
The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share
The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share
Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share
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 Copy Share
It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share
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… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share
![“The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all…Look to the road you are walking on. 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…” quote by Harry Emerson Fosdick](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bc0/harry-emerson-fosdick-3672_aim_the-tragic-evils-of-our-life-are-so-comm_1097642.png)
