fosdick Quotes

“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.”

“The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.”

“Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.”

“Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.”

“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.”

“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.”