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Us Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
- We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new expression in terms…
- ...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet…
- It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to…
- Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us
- We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.
- Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the…
- While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
- In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is.…
- Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the…
- Our power is not so much in us as through us.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong