Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Harry Emerson Fosdick More Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick More Quotes From Harry Emerson Fosdick One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want. Harry Emerson Fosdick shepherds civilization science Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom. Harry Emerson Fosdick friendship giving happy-life One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up. Harry Emerson Fosdick dropping strange lasts No man need stay the way he is. Harry Emerson Fosdick men way needs While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person. Harry Emerson Fosdick depressed-person depression needs The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. Harry Emerson Fosdick friendship men jesus Christ has given us the most glorious interpretation of life's meaning that man has ever had. The fatherhood of God, the fellowship of the Spirit, the sovereignty of righteousness, the law of love, the glory of service, the coming of the Kingdom, the eternal hope- there was never an interpretation of life to compare with that. Harry Emerson Fosdick fatherhood law men Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality. Harry Emerson Fosdick hospitality struggle spiritual We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great. Harry Emerson Fosdick Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded. Harry Emerson Fosdick light soul character The first question to be answered by any individual or by any social group, The real handle facing a hazardous sit - to a difficult uation, is whether the stuaton crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair. Harry Emerson Fosdick despair adversity challenges It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live. Harry Emerson Fosdick action people ideas No one can be wrong with man and right with God. Harry Emerson Fosdick men I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. Harry Emerson Fosdick hate war peace The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it. Harry Emerson Fosdick irritation faith love Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion? Harry Emerson Fosdick spring science mean Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly. Harry Emerson Fosdick language energy speak Opinions may be mistaken; love never is. Harry Emerson Fosdick mistaken opinion may Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning. Harry Emerson Fosdick stars change god No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness . Harry Emerson Fosdick virtue tests character