Nothing else matters much; not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be…

Quote by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Topics: Belief Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Learning Quotes, Life Quotes

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what...

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what...

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

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

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for...

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for...

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life;...

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life;...

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It...

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It...

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than...

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than...

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of...

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of...

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the...

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the...

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life;...

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life;...

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe,...

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe,...

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that...

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that...

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but...

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but...

I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours...

I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours...