Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.”

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

“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.”

“Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”

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

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

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