More From 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."
- "It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."
- "Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to."
More In Religion
- "Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose."― Azar Nafisi
- "Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone."― Karl Barth
- "It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."― Barack Obama