Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

American - Clergyman | May 24, 1878 - October 5, 1969

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

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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.

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

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Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

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

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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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