Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

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

Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

While each of us … has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person’s place.

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.