Harry Emerson Fosdick – amerykański pastor i teolog baptystyczny.
„Demokracja wynika z przeświadczenia, że w zwykłych ludziach tkwią niezwykłe możliwości.”
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. (ang.)
Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, wyboru dokonał Krzysztof Nowak, Warszawa 1998.
“Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,
For the facing of this hour,
For the facing of this hour.”
Źródło: God of Grace and God of Glory (1930)
Kontekst: 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.
Źródło: Living Under Tension (1941), p. 111
“The half is greater than the whole.”
Hesiod, in Works and Days
Misattributed
“Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.”
As quoted in He Came from Galilee (1974) by Parker B. Brown
“Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.”
As I See Religion (1932)
Wariant: Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Źródło: God of Grace and God of Glory (1930)
“Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,
Lest we miss Thy kingdom's goal,
Lest we miss Thy kingdom's goal.”
Źródło: God of Grace and God of Glory (1930)
Źródło: God of Grace and God of Glory (1930)
Statement of 1937 or earlier, as quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) edited by Herbert Victor Prochnow