Harry Emerson Fosdick: the library of yourself
Gumbo (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
"Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books, which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him." -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Feel Good Quotes and Mantras
Curvidence (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” - HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK There is nobody more capable of doing a task set in front of me than I am. I will rise the occasion, meet deadlines, and strive to achieve what is seemingly impossible. I am not inferior to anyone and from this day forward, I will make an active investment in my own life!...
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Shall the ‘Orthodox’ Anglicans Win?
Lionel Deimel's Web Log (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Harry Emerson Fosdick’s sermon “Shall the Fundamentalists Win'” is well known. I had an opportunity to reread it the other day and was struck not only by its eloquence in opposing the Fundamentalism of the early twentieth century, but also by its relevance to The Episcopal Church as today’s Episcopalians contemplate a possible Anglican covenant. As I read...
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The art of doing it
Montag ... (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Gems that caught my eye today while browsing Do It! Let's Get Off Our Buts , the best book I've ever read about getting stuff done and following dreams: ... the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. - Robert Heinlein Quit now, you'll never...
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Mother
Healing Philosophy (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... Carrie Latet He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers. Harry Emerson Fosdick Men are what their mothers made them. Ralph Waldo Emerson A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it. W. D. Howells
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer in New York
Faith and Theology (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
... Bonhoeffer was taking courses with Reinhold Niebuhr and John Baillie, going to hear sermons by Harry Emerson Fosdick, studying pragmatism and American literature (he "read almost the entire philosophical works of William James, which really captivated me, then Dewey, Perry, Russell, and finally also J. B. Watson and the behaviorist literature"), worshipping in black...
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Pondering Retirement
Linda's Window (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... 1839-1899) “Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.” Harry Emerson Fosdick (American clergyman 1878-1969) And, to quote Ernest Hemmingway (reminiscent, I thought, of Ebenezer Scrooge), “Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.” I guess the eternal optimist in me wants to think of retirement not as the end of a journey,...