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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick
American Clergyman
Born: May 24, 1878
Died: Oct 5, 1969
God Great Life Man People War
Related authors: Billy Graham Charles R. Swindoll Henry Ward Beecher Jim Elliot Joel Osteen John C. Maxwell Norman Vincent Peale Thomas S. Monson
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Wrapped Small Himself Makes Up Person Package
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Love Best Nature Courage Strong Hardships Soil Will Human Nature Though Characteristics Faces Mysterious Troubles He Calamity Know Knows Mixture Human Which Who Grow Need
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. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Life Great Stream Light Power Focused No Life Horse Drives He Until Disciplined Gets Confined Anything Anywhere Turned Dedicated Niagara Ever Grows Gas
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
Life World Mind My Life Live Would Comprehend Rather Small Could Mystery Surrounded Than Where
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
World Says Someone Generally Days Doing Done Moving Who Fast Interrupted
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. Harry Emerson Fosdick
God Our Our Lives Possibilities Outrun Put Mortality Within Limits Quite Meanings Lives
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things. Harry Emerson Fosdick
God Press Cosmic Get Whom Things Button
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Harry Emerson Fosdick
People Rat Own Down Hating Hating People Like House Get Burning Your Rid
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Democracy People Conviction Extraordinary Possibilities Ordinary Ordinary People Based
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Change Cause Profit Merely Supposed Nor Endure Even Christians
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. Harry Emerson Fosdick
War Democracy Hate Starvation Puts Dictatorships After Place
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Business Something Simply Retire
Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Preaching Group Counseling Personal Basis
Our power is not so much in us as through us. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Power Our Through Us Much
Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself. Harry Emerson Fosdick
You Yourself Whatever Others Laugh Laughs
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Success Alone Yourself Will Picture Vividly Winning Contribute

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