Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Related Quotes

John Blofeld, fully John Eaton Calthorpe Blofeld

The world is full of paradox. For example, [in Buddhism] though no notion of a creator is entertained, great stress is laid upon the need for faith and piety. By faith is meant not trust in a benevolent diety avid for love, praise and obedience, but conviction that beyond the seeming reality misreported by our senses which is inherently unsatisfactory, lies a mystery which, when intuitively unsatisfactory, lies a mystery which, when intuitively perceived, will give our lives undreamed-of meaning and endow the most insignificant object with holiness and beauty.

Beauty | Example | Faith | Love | Meaning | Mystery | Need | Obedience | Object | Paradox | Piety | Praise | Reality | Trust | Will | World |

David Armistead

Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.

Enough | People | Trust |

Joyce Brothers

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Flattery | Imitation | Listening | Trust |

Henry Clay

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the public.

Government | Public | Trust | Government |

Christopher Cranch, fully Christopher Pearse Cranch

O Light divine! We need no fuller test that all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best where Love and Wisdom dwell.

Enough | Light | Love | Need | Trust | Wisdom |

Henry Fielding

Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

Man | Reason | Trust |

James W. Fowler III

Most often faith is understood as belief in certain propositional, doctrinal formulations that in some essential ands static way are supposed to “contain” truth. But if faith is relational, a pledging of trust and fidelity to another, and a way of moving into the force field of life trusting in dynamic center of value and power, then the “truth” of faith takes on a different quality. Truth is lived: it is a pattern of being in relation to others and to God. In this light, doctrines and creeds come to be seen as playing a different though still crucial role. Rather than being the repositories of truth, like treasure chests to be honored and assented to, they becomes guides for the construction of contemporary ways of seeing and being.

Belief | Dynamic | Faith | Fidelity | Force | God | Life | Life | Light | Power | Trust | Truth | Value |

Jean Grou, fully Jean Nicholas Grou

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life for which the first was made. Our times are in His hand Who saith: “A whole I planned, youth shows but half; trust God: see all nor be afraid.”

God | Life | Life | Trust | Youth | Youth | Old |

William Ralph Inge

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love… Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Bereavement | Challenge | Faith | God | Happy | Life | Life | Love | Trust |

Oswald Hoffmann, fully Oswald C. J. Hoffmann

Can anyone think of believing in God without trusting Him? Is it possible to trust in God for the big things like forgiveness and eternal life, and then refuse to trust Him for the little things like clothing and food?

Eternal | Forgiveness | God | Life | Life | Little | Trust | Forgiveness | God | Think |

Peter W. Jedlicka

Unity requires trust and mutual respect.

Respect | Trust | Unity |

Norman Macleod

Courage, brother! Do not stumble, though thy path be as dark as night; there’s a star to guide the humble. Trust in God and do right.

Courage | God | Right | Trust | God |

Mozi or Mo-tze, Mocius or Mo-tzu, original name Mo Di, aka Master Mo NULL

A people only become unmanageable when one tries to lead them with a violent love…. Bit if one approaches them with trust and takes them by the hand, if one lures them forward with riches and drives them from behind with just punishment… there will not be a single one who will not adapt himself to the ruler.

Love | People | Punishment | Riches | Trust | Will | Riches |