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.
More Quotes from 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
It is going to be a long, hard haul it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
One watches people starting out in life quite adequately, handling life with active vigor, as they run, one after another, into experiences where something deeper than vigor is needed. Serious failure, for example. Some night in his lifetime everyone come.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Place QuotesBased on Keywords: picturing
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
Frank Moore Colby
I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there.
Hjalmar Branting
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
Lincoln Kirstein