Quote #8
'Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man is his endowment with personal capacities.'
More from Harry Emerson Fosdick
- 'Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. '
- 'God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done.'
- 'Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. '
- 'Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.'
- 'Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.'
- 'He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.'
- 'Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bittern…
- 'He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.'