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Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson FosdickDon't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Harry Emerson FosdickBitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Harry Emerson FosdickI renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.
Harry Emerson FosdickDemocracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson FosdickLiberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson FosdickPeace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.
Harry Emerson FosdickHe who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Harry Emerson FosdickChristians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson FosdickTo 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 FosdickHating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emerson FosdickAt very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
Harry Emerson FosdickHe who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
Harry Emerson Fosdick