Quote #10

'Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.'

More from Harry Emerson Fosdick

  1. 'God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done.'
  2. 'He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.'
  3. 'Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man is his endowment with pers…
  4. 'He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.'
  5. 'Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. '
  6. 'He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characterist…
  7. 'Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. '
  8. 'Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.'

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