Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

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Harry Emerson Fosdick

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : May 24, 1878

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

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

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

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

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

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