It is not marriage that fails; it is peo... by Harry Emerson Fosdick | We Heart Quotes

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It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Other quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Faces Nature Will Love

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.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Man Life

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Friendship Men

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

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

God

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

God

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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