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Harry Emerson Fosdick — Portrait after a picture by New York Public Library from a photograph by Underwood & Underwood, New York. [2] (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Harry Emerson Fosdick

American pastor

1878–1969

7 quotes.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Often credited to Benjamin Franklin
- Virtue
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Riverside Sermons (1958), p. 22
- Knowledge
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
Living Under Tension (1941), p. 111
- Decisions
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.
Statement of 1937 or earlier, as quoted in The New Speaker’s Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) edited by Herbert Victor Prochnow
- Motivation & Goals
You can know a real Christian when you see him, by his buoyancy.
Twelve Tests of Character (1923)
- Christianity
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
On Being a Real Person (1943)
- Life & Death
Peace 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.
On Being Fit to Live With: Sermons on Post-War Christianity (1946)
- Faith

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