Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
More Quotes from Harry Emerson Fosdick:
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.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
One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement 'He that is greatest among you shall be your servant.' Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.
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
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
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