Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will,… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new… — 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
A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing… — 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
A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has… — 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
