Quotes from Harry Emerson Fosdick

There is one sense, however, in which answer to prayer can always be depended on, if a man has kept his life at all in harmony with God. Even when God cannot answer affirmatively the man's petition he can answer the man.

There are many prayers that God must not answer, but there are no good prayers which God cannot answer.

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

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to

the prayer of dominant desire always tends to attain its object.

Prayer is hunger and thirst. Prayer is our demand on life, elevated, purified, and aware of a Divine Alliance.

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.

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.

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

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

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.

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

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.

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.

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.

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