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
Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life... — 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
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
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
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. — 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 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
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
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
One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living. — 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
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
