Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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
Person
Needs
Depressed
Depression
None
Hours
Persons
More quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
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
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.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
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
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
