More from Harry Emerson Fosdick

  1. 'Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. '
  2. '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…
  3. 'Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.'
  4. 'God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done.'
  5. 'Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bittern…
  6. 'Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.'
  7. 'A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.'
  8. 'He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.'

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