More from Harry Emerson Fosdick

  1. 'Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.'
  2. 'Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a…
  3. Our power is not so much in us as through us.
  4. 'Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.'
  5. 'No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light …
  6. 'Some Christians carry their religion on their backs. It is a packet of beliefs and practices which they must bear. At times it grows heavy…
  7. 'Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.'
  8. 'The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of a…

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