Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in… — 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 not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth. — 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 ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl.… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share
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
