Quote #23

'Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world- making the most of one's best. '

More from Harry Emerson Fosdick

  1. 'Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.'
  2. 'Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.'
  3. 'Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.'
  4. '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…
  5. Our power is not so much in us as through us.
  6. '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…
  7. '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 …
  8. 'The half is greater than the whole.'

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