Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Age: 91 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 24
Died: 1969
Died: October 5
Author
Preacher
Theologian
Writer
Buffalo
New York
H. E. Fosdick
Keep
Must
Picturing
People
Consists
Golden
Rule
Places
Depends
Upon
More quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself
Harry Emerson Fosdick
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
When you hear a person say, I hate, adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That person may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen to the radio, but his or her mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
What a testing of character adversity is.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Fearr imprisons, faith liberates fear paralyzes, faith empowers fear disheartens, faith encourages fear sickens, faith heals fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: Not my will, but thine, be done. What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?
Harry Emerson Fosdick
