Quotes from Harry Emerson Fosdick

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

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

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

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.

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

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.

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

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

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

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.

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

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

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

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

No man need stay the way he is.

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.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

But no one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it.

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

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