Harry Emerson Fosdick Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick I hate war… for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick 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. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick 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. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us. – Harry Emerson Fosdick