This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Our advance and salvation, our retreat and destruction, are linked with the prosperity or failure of school and synagogue.
Failure | Prosperity | Salvation | Wisdom | Failure |
It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enlying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.
René Bazin, fully René François Nicolas Marie Bazin
There is no need to go searching for a remedy for the evils of the time. The remedy already exists - it is the gift of one’s self to those who have fallen so low that even hope fails them. Open wide your heart.
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
Agitation | Choice | Hope | Providence | Wisdom |
James Baldwin, fully James Arthur Baldwin
The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.
R. E. C. Browne, fully Robert Eric Charles Browne
Medieval churchmen… held that faith, hope and love are the fundamental Christian virtues and that the cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude) are needed to express faith, hope and love in all the varying circumstances of life in the world.
Circumstances | Faith | Fortitude | Hope | Justice | Life | Life | Love | Prudence | Prudence | World |
Winston Churchill, fully Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Man | Prosperity |
Gilbert Keith "G.K." Chesteron
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon that which is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all – and to hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, fully Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can't be done. They hope it can't be done because it means seeing the garden in a whole new way. Then they see it can be done. Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries before.
César Chávez, fully César Estrada Chávez
The end of all education should surely be service to others. We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about the progress and prosperity of our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others for their sake and for our own.
Achievement | Education | Enough | Progress | Prosperity | Service |
Robert Bridges, fully Robert Seymour Bridges
Music being the universal expression of the mysterious and supernatural, the best that man has ever attained to, is capable of uniting in common devotion minds that are only separated by creeds, and it comforts our hope with a brighter promise of unity than any logic offers.
Idolatry is the denial of all hope for the future. The idols of the past were worshipped by people who were afraid of change, who wanted things to remain the same, who did not want a future that was different, who found their security in the status quo. The same is true today.
Change | Future | Hope | Past | People | Security | Afraid |
We were never promised a life free from fear and struggle. We were offered the hope that by committing ourselves to the struggle for a righteous society in solidarity with the wretched of the earth we would discover the secret of life.
Earth | Fear | Hope | Life | Life | Society | Struggle | Society |