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
Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us.… — 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
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of… — 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
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 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
