Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Nothing else matters much - not wealth, nor learning, nor even health - without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

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

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick