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.
Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.
Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.
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.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
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.
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.
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.