Inspirational Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
“He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to”
“No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.”
topics: Friendship
“Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.”
“Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable.”
“Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.”
topics: Examples
“God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.”
topics: Eternity
“He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.”
“The real war is inward of which the outer action is but the echo and reverberation.”
topics: Conscience
“All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.”
topics: Compassion
“To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.”
topics: Compassion
“Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.”
“Our power is not so much in us as through us.”
“Consider how impossible nobility of character would be if our goodness were untried innocence instead of victorious virtue.”
“Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.”
“The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
topics: Achievement
“Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.”
topics: Achievement
“There are many prayers that God must not answer, but there are no good prayers which God cannot answer.”
“There is one sense, however, in which answer to prayer can always be depended on, if a man has kept his life at all in harmony with God. Even when God cannot answer affirmatively the man's petition he can answer the man.”
“Prayer is hunger and thirst. Prayer is our demand on life, elevated, purified, and aware of a Divine Alliance.”
“the prayer of dominant desire always tends to attain its object.”
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1878-1969
Harry Emerson Fosdick was an American clergyman. He was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Colgate University in 1900, and Union Theological Seminary in 1904. While attending Colgate University he joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1903 at the Madison Avenue Baptist Church at 31st Street. Fosdick was the most prominent liberal Baptist minister of the early 20th Century. Although a Baptist, he was Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church on West Twelfth Street and then at the historic, interdenominational Riverside Church (the congregation moved from the then-named Park Avenue Baptist Church, now the Central Presbyterian Church) in New York City.
Fosdick became a central figure in the conflict between fundamentalist and liberal forces within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s. He saw the history of Christianity as one of development, progress, and gradual change. To the fundamentalists, this was rank apostasy, and the battle lines were drawn.
Fosdick was an outspoken opponent of racism and injustice. Fosdick's sermons won him wide recognition, as did his radio addresses which were nationally broadcast. He authored numerous books, and many of his sermon collections are still in print. He is also the author of the hymn, "God of Grace and God of Glory"