Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick: "The High Uses of Serenity"

​“This basic law holds good: nothing great without serenity.

“Let us get our eye clearly, then, on what we are talking of—not serenity as an escape from life, but as an indispensable part of life: what rest is to the body, what peace is to the home, what roots are to the tree, what depth is to an ocean.

​"Nothing in heaven above or the earth beneath can be great without serenity! …

“There are people who are trying to substitute thrills for serenity. Having no serenity at home within themselves, they run away into sensations, spend as much time as possible away from themselves amid their thrills, and then at last have to come back again to no serenity.

​“That is the very essence of unhappiness.”

​"The High Uses of Serenity," Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick
The Power to See It Through

To read a few more quotes from this book and this author's review of Harry Emerson Fosdick's, The Power to See It Through, select the image above or the link below.

Review of Harry Emerson Fosdick's: "The Power to See It Through."