Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

#environment #heredity #life #make #out

Our power is not so much in us as through us. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#our #power #through #us

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

#depends #golden #golden rule #keep #must

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#attach #cannot #great #ourselves #something

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

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#endowment #every #his #human #human life

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#acts #ideas #live #people

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#chooses #determines #end #leads #means

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#consequences #hate #hatreds #i #lies

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#democracies #dictatorships #hate #i #place

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#dangerous #liberty #safest #thing