This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, cunning, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment – or at least much handicap – to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need.
Capitalism | Compassion | Cunning | Giving | Honesty | Justice | Little | Love | Need | Play | Punishment | Reward | Work |
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ...the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.
Despair | Industry | Purpose | Purpose | Self | Self-denial | World | Worth |
G. M. Trevelyan, fully George Macaulay Trevelyan
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Distinguish | Education | Reading | Worth |
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
History | Ideas | Television | Worth |
There is only one philosophical problem that is really serious, and that is suicide. To decide whether life is worth living or not is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question in philosophy.