Marion Berry Black Quotes


Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. Harry Emerson Fosdick Democracy 145
Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable. Harry Emerson Fosdick Fear 112
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Harry Emerson Fosdick Hate 105
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end. Harry Emerson Fosdick Endings 100
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 Life 82
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. Harry Emerson Fosdick Best Life 78
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings. Harry Emerson Fosdick Religion 75
Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself. Harry Emerson Fosdick Laughter 74
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Harry Emerson Fosdick Success 74
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 Comprehend 71
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 Anything 67
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. Harry Emerson Fosdick Business 66
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 Nature 66
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Harry Emerson Fosdick Love 64
Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis. Harry Emerson Fosdick Basis 60
No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. Harry Emerson Fosdick Actions 57
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. Harry Emerson Fosdick Democracy 53
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. Harry Emerson Fosdick Independence Day 50
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. Harry Emerson Fosdick Democracies 49
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. Harry Emerson Fosdick Vanity 49
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. Harry Emerson Fosdick Life 47
Our power is not so much in us as through us. Harry Emerson Fosdick Power 45
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things. Harry Emerson Fosdick Button 40
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 Life 40
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Harry Emerson Fosdick Hate 39
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled. Harry Emerson Fosdick Life 39
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful. Harry Emerson Fosdick Life 37
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. Harry Emerson Fosdick Uncategorized 35
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. Harry Emerson Fosdick God 35
A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar ... but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs. Harry Emerson Fosdick Beliefs 30
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth. Harry Emerson Fosdick Truth 30
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. Harry Emerson Fosdick Friend 28
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. Harry Emerson Fosdick Change 28
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses. Harry Emerson Fosdick Arouses 27
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward. Harry Emerson Fosdick Footing 24

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