Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
W. R. Forrester, fully William Roxburgh Forrester
British Theologian and Author of "Christian Vocation: Studies in Faith and Work" and "A Scotsman Speaks to California!"
"Every war of the future will be a war of religion, for no country will go to war till it can give its cause the color of a Crusade and so secure for its maintenance absolute loyalty of a heroic quality in the whole population."
"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."
"There is nothing in the whole world so dangerous as a sense of vocation without a belief in God."
"Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership."
"She felt that those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy."
"Apocalyptic religion has its merits, but tolerance is not one of them."
"Man was meant to be a gardener, but by reason of his sin he became a farmer."