“Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.” — 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
All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. — 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
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
Fearr imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith also makes… — 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… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if… — 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
