Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

The Finest Quality Of Our Characters Do Not Come From Trying But From The Mysterious And Yet Most Effective Capacity To Be Inspired.

Religion Is Something That Only Secondarily Can Be Taught. It Must Must Primarily Be Taught.

We Must Take The Abiding Spiritual Values Which Inhere In The Deep Experiences Of Religion In All Ages And Give Them New Expression In Terms Of The Framework Which Our New Knowledge Gives Us. Science Forces Religion To Deal With New Ideas In The Theoretical Realm And New Forces In The Practical Realm.

No One Can Get Inner Peace By Pouncing On It.--harry Emerson Fosdickno One Can Get Inner Peace By Pouncing On It.

I Hate War For Its Consequences, For The Lies It Lives On And Propagates, For The Undying Hatreds It Arouses.

Every Great Scientist Becomes A Great Scientist Because Of The Inner Self-abnegation With Which He Stands Before Truth, Saying: "not My Will, But Thine, Be Done." What, Then, Does A Man Mean By Saying, Science Displaces Religion, When In This Deep Sense Science Itself Springs From Religion?

Every Year The Inventions Of Science Weave More Inextricably The Web That Binds Man To Man, Group To Group, Nation To Nation.

We Cannot Restore Integrity And Morality To Our Society Until Each Of Us-singly And Individually-takes Responsibility For Our Actions.

The All But Unanimous Judgment Seems To Be That We, The Democracies, Are Just As Responsible For The Rise Of The Dictators As The Dictatorships Themselves, And Perhaps More So.

A Supremely Religious Man Or Woman Is One Who Believes Deeply And Consistently In The Veracity Of His Highest Experiences. He Has His Hours In The Cellar ... But He Believes In The Truth Of The Hours He Spends Upstairs.

In The Foothills Of The Himalayas, One Hears The Prayer: "oh Lord, We Know Not What Is Good For Us. You Know What It Is. For It We Pray."

Life Consists Not Simply In What Heredity And Environment Do To Us, But In What We Make Out Of What They Do To Us