Harry Emerson Fosdick citáty a výroky
„Nie sú nešťastné manželstvá, sú nešťastní ľudia a manželstvo ich len ukazuje.“
Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: [KOTRMANOVÁ, Milada.: Perly ducha. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1996 ISBN 80-902272-1-X]
Harry Emerson Fosdick: Citáty v angličtine
“Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,
For the facing of this hour,
For the facing of this hour.”
Zdroj: God of Grace and God of Glory (1930)
Kontext: God of grace and God of glory,
On Thy people pour Thy power.
Crown Thine ancient church’s story,
Bring her bud to glorious flower.
Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,
For the facing of this hour,
For the facing of this hour.
Zdroj: Living Under Tension (1941), p. 111
“The half is greater than the whole.”
Hesiod, in Works and Days
Misattributed
“Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.”
As quoted in He Came from Galilee (1974) by Parker B. Brown
“Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.”
As I See Religion (1932)
Varianta: Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Zdroj: God of Grace and God of Glory (1930)
“Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,
Lest we miss Thy kingdom's goal,
Lest we miss Thy kingdom's goal.”
Zdroj: God of Grace and God of Glory (1930)
Zdroj: God of Grace and God of Glory (1930)
Statement of 1937 or earlier, as quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) edited by Herbert Victor Prochnow
