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Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes


An American clergyman.
Harry Emerson Fosdick (May 24, 1878-October 5, 1969) was an American clergyman. He was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Colgate University in 1900, and Union Theological Seminary in 1904. While attending Colgate University he joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1903 at the Madison Avenue Baptist Church at 31st Street. Fosdick was the most prominent liberal Baptist minister of the early 20th Century. Although a Baptist, he was Guest Preacher, at First Presbyterian Church on West Twelfth Street and then at the historic, interdenominational Riverside Church (the congregation moved from the then-named Park Avenue Baptist Church, now the Central Presbyterian Church ) in New York City.

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Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

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

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All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

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

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Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.

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

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Nothing in human life least of all in religion is ever right until it is beautiful.

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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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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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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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Fear imprisons faith liberates; fear paralyzes faith empowers; fear disheartens faith encourages; fear sickens faith heals; fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.

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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.

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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever 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.

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Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. 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.