Death Quote by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“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

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

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life...

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

No man need stay the way he is.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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