Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”

“God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.”

“Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.”

“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.”

“The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.”

“Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.”