Great Throughts Treasury

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

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

As knowledge advances, science ceases to scoff at religion; and religion ceases to frown on science. The hour of mockery by the one, and of reproof by the other, is passing away. Henceforth, they will dwell together in unity and good-will. They will mutually illustrate the wisdom, power, and grace of God. Science will adorn and enrich religion; and religion will ennoble and sanctify science.

God | Good | Grace | Knowledge | Mockery | Power | Religion | Science | Unity | Will | Wisdom |

Thomas Mozley

To be human is to suffer loss. To lose it to grieve. To grieve is to heal. Grace and power to you in leaning in to and moving through that painful process.

Grace | Power | Wisdom |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

This is Daddy's little secret for today: Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

God | Grace | Little | Man | Wisdom | God |

Max Stirner, born Johann Kaspar Schmidt

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.

Grace | Law | Property | Wisdom |

Jeremy Taylor

Faith is a certain image of eternity. All things are present to it - things past, and things to come; it converses with angels, and antedates the hymns of glory. Every man that hath this grace is as certain there are glories for him, if he perseveres in duty, as if he had heard and sung thanksgiving song for the blessed sentence of doomsday.

Angels | Duty | Eternity | Faith | Glory | Grace | Man | Past | Present | Wisdom | Blessed |

Franz Werfel, fully Franz Viktor Werfel

What is happiness other than the grace of being permitted to unfold to their fullest bloom all the spiritual powers planted within us.

Grace | Wisdom | Happiness |

John Elof Boodin

All is not right with the world, but with the grace of God we can in a measure recreate the world into something nobler and more beautiful.

God | Grace | Right | World | God |

Wolf Biermann, fully Karl Wolf Biermann

Life goes at such a terrific pace--a few years full of youth and grace and then you fall flat on your face before world history.

Grace | History | Life | Life | World | Youth | Youth |

R. L. Bruckberger, fully Raymond Léopold Bruckberger

If the Day of Judgment came tomorrow, and God asked us what we had made of His revelation, of His grace and our freedom… we would be hard put to it to explain the advantages of a machine civilization whose highest efficiency is used for murder and slavery.

Civilization | Day | Efficiency | Freedom | God | Grace | Judgment | Murder | Revelation | Slavery | Tomorrow | God | Murder |

John Cotton

Not in any prescribed form of prayer, or studied liturgie, but in such manner as the Spirit of grace and prayer teacheth all the people of God.

God | Grace | People | Prayer | Spirit |

John Dewey

The things in our civilization we most prize are not of ourselves. They exist by grace of the doings and sufferings of the continuous human community in which we are a link. Ours is the responsibility of conserving, transmitting, rectifying and expanding the heritage of values we have received, that those who come after us may receive it more solid and secure, more widely accessible and more generously shared that we have received it. Here are all the elements for a religious faith that shall not be confined to sect, class or race. Such a faith has always been implicitly the common faith of mankind.

Civilization | Faith | Grace | Mankind | Race | Receive | Responsibility |

Emmet Fox

You grow in grace and understanding by solving your daily problems as they arise, by the Practice of the Presence of God, by a tolerant attitude toward others, by plan horse sense (which is Divine Wisdom in you), by sincere and honest dealing at all times, and by cultivating a true sense of humor – which always brings us nearer to God. The great point is that life is to be met and mastered. Outer conditions and appearances are simply of no importance in themselves except as they supply material for growth.

God | Grace | Growth | Humor | Life | Life | Plan | Practice | Problems | Sense | Understanding | Wisdom |

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, fully Réginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange

Grace does not destroy our liberty by its certain efficacy; rather by that very efficacy divine grace moves the free will without doing violence to it.

Destroy | Free will | Grace | Liberty | Will |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative [or creation] there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too... Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.

Action | Chance | Grace | Ideas | Ignorance | Initiative | Magic | Power | Providence | Truth | Think |

Vincent McNabb

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Control | God | Grace | Hope | God |

Prabhavananda, fully Swami Prabhavananda NULL

The breeze of God’s grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze.

God | Grace |

Arthur Deikman

A Hopi tradition speaks of a fall from grace in which human beings experience themselves as progressively more separate from earth, animals, and other humans. The return to grace is through reunion. The cause of the fall is ascribed to people's forgetting their true nature and purpose.

Cause | Earth | Experience | Grace | Nature | People | Purpose | Purpose | Tradition |