About Author :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. 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 in New York City.
Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotations
Don’t simply retire from something have something to retire to.
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused dedicated disciplined.
Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.
No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused dedicated disciplined.
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it.
Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself but most of them were written for him.
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye and you will be drawn toward it.