Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

You have to stay strong when it gets tough.

Great faith must have great trials.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.

Hard times may test me, they cannot destroy me.

Now, I wish to encourage those who are in the midst of hard trials, who feel their faith may be fading under the onslaught of troubles. There seems to me no better answer to the question of why trials come and what we are to do than the words of the Lord Himself, who passed through trials for us more terrible than we can imagine.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.

Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

I've been screwed and sued and tattooed, and I'm still standin' here in front of you.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.