Harry Emerson Fosdick
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""Harry Emerson Fosdick"" was an American pastor. Fosdick became a central figure in the "Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy" within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominent Liberal Christianity/liberal ministers of the early 20th Century. Although a Baptist, he was a guest preacher in New York City, at First Presbyterian Church (Manhattan)/First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan's West Village, and then at the historic, inter-denominational Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, Manhattan.

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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

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He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

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

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

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Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

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Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. 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.

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