Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdickwas an American pastor. Fosdick became a central figure in the "Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy" within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th Century. Although a Baptist, he was called to serve as pastor, in New York City, at First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan's West Village, and then at the historic, inter-denominational Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, Manhattan...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth24 May 1878
CountryUnited States of America
Harry Emerson Fosdick quotes about
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
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 who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That person may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen to the radio, but his or her mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C.
In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray."
Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.
One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.