Quotes from Harry Emerson Fosdick

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Nothing else matters much -- not wealth, nor learning, nor even health -- without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

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.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another.

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

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.

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. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.