This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
When crime wishes to attack innocence, it can always find a pretext for doing so.
Forgiveness is one of the least understood of all spiritual practices. It has nothing to do with condoning poor behavior in ourselves and others. Rather, it calls us to responsibility. In forgiving ourselves, we make the journey from guilt for what we have done (or not done) to celebration of what we become.
Behavior | Forgiveness | Guilt | Journey | Nothing | Responsibility |
In the last analysis we remain persons who must flee from ourselves and from the dark mystery of our threatening guilt in order to find our true selves in God. Whoever has understood the importance of this flight, this critical distancing of ourselves from ourselves, whoever has understood this knows that it comes about only by allowing oneself to be loved by an infinite and all-forgiving love, which is called God, and by believing, hoping and loving in this love.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Guilt is the only evil; but no guilt accrues when the issue is one against which there are no guarantees.
There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them.
Care | Fear | Guilt | Riches | Sorrow | Temptation | Temptation |
Man's great guilt does not lie in the sins he commits, for temptation is great and his strength is limited. Man's great guilt lies in the fact that he can turn away from evil at any moment, and yet he does not.
Evil | Guilt | Man | Strength | Temptation | Temptation |
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
Richard Jefferies, fully John Richard Jefferies
How can I adequately express my contempt for the assertion that all things occur for the best, for a wise and beneficent end, and are ordered by a human intelligence! It is the most utter falsehood and a crime against the human race.
Assertion | Contempt | Crime | Falsehood | Human race | Intelligence | Race | Wise |