Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

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

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

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.

Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.

A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar … but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it’s as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.