Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

The will of the world is never the will of God.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

Every man thinks god is on his side.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

I had hoped God would be neutral.

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there is a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

God does not play dice.

God is bigger than people think.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.