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
While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
No man need stay the way he is.
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
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.
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.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of [a] stick picks up the other.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to.