138 Quotes by 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.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

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

There need not be in religion, or music, or art, or love, or goodness, anything that is against reason; but never while the sun shines will we get great religion, or music, or art, or love, or goodness, without going beyond reason.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

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.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it

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.