No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness . — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Consider how impossible nobility of character would be if our goodness were untried innocence instead of victorious virtue. — 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 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
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
“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 Image
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 Image
Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life... — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
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 Image
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
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 Image
