It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
More Quotes from Harry Emerson Fosdick:
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.Harry Emerson Fosdick
The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
He 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 Fosdick
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eye.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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