Harry Emerson Fosdick: Quotes about life

Harry Emerson Fosdick was American pastor. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“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

Source: Riverside Sermons (1958), p. 22

Life , World

“Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man is his endowment with personal capacities.”

Harry Emerson Fosdick

On Being a Real Person (1943)
Context: Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man is his endowment with personal capacities. The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distances.

Life , Universe , Personality

“The Church offers comradeship with Jesus in all the affairs of life. It gives men a clearer understanding of the mind of Christ. It is through Christ that they come to know God. The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.”

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Statement co-authored with Joseph Fort Newton and Charles E. Jefferson, edited by Charles Steltzle, as quoted in The American Scrap Book (1928), p. 15; also in Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches (1930), p. 85

Life , Men , God , Friendship

“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

On Being a Real Person (1943)

Life

“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.”

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Source: Riverside Sermons (1958), p. 100

Love , Life