Quotes from Harry Emerson Fosdick


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    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.

    Life | Power | Great


    Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

    Laugh | Others | Whatever


    We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great.

    Great | Ourselves | Cannot


    Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

    Religion | Wings | Burden


    Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

    Group | Personal | Preaching


    I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

    War | Hate | Starvation


    He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

    Road | Beginning | Means


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

    Work | Forward | Rest


    God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

    God | Limits | Meanings


    The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

    Best | War | Tragedy


    Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

    Liberty | Dangerous | Safest


    I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

    War | Hate | Lies


    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.

    Moving | Fast | Days


    Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

    Change | Profit | Cause


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

    Power


    Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

    Life | Simply | Consists


    A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

    Small | Himself | Package


    The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

    Friendship | Men | Discipline


    Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

    Success | Alone | Winning


    Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

    Strength | Life | Spoiled


       

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