Harry Emerson Fosdick: Quotes about people

Harry Emerson Fosdick was American pastor. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“God of grace and God of glory,
On Thy people pour Thy power.”

Harry Emerson Fosdick

God of Grace and God of Glory (1930)
Context: God of grace and God of glory,
On Thy people pour Thy power.
Crown Thine ancient church’s story,
Bring her bud to glorious flower.
Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,
For the facing of this hour,
For the facing of this hour.

God , People

“Already all of us must have heard about the people who call themselves the Fundamentalists. Their apparent intention is to drive out of the evangelical churches men and women of liberal opinions.”

Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” in Christian Work #102 (10 June 1922), p. 716–722 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5070/
Context: Already all of us must have heard about the people who call themselves the Fundamentalists. Their apparent intention is to drive out of the evangelical churches men and women of liberal opinions. I speak of them the more freely because there are no two denominations more affected by them than the Baptist and the Presbyterian. We should not identify the Fundamentalists with the conservatives. All Fundamentalists are conservatives, but not all conservatives are Fundamentalists. The best conservatives can often give lessons to the liberals in true liberality of spirit, but the Fundamentalist program is essentially illiberal and intolerant.

Women , Men , People

“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.”

Harry Emerson Fosdick

As quoted in Don't Try to Live Your Life in One Day! (2008) by Johnny Ong, p. 171

People , Dependency

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

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Anatole France, as quoted in The Ironic Temper : Anatole France and His Time (1932)
Misattributed

People , Idea

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

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Statement made in 1935 or earlier, as quoted in The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern (1937) by Burton Egbert Stevenson

People , Democracy

“Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.”

Harry Emerson Fosdick

As I See Religion (1932)
Variant: Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Hate , People , Home

“God of grace and God of glory,
On Thy people pour Thy power.
Crown Thine ancient church's story,
Bring her bud to glorious flower.
Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,
For the facing of this hour,
For the facing of this hour.”

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Source: God of Grace and God of Glory (1930)

God , People , Flowers , Courage