This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law.
Democracy | Distinction | Experiment | Reward | Sense | Leadership |
No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.
Distinction | Office | People |
The whole world is bound together as never before; the bonds are sometimes those of hatred rather than love, but they are bonds nevertheless. Frowning or hopeful, every man of leadership in any line of thought or effort must now look beyond the limits of his own country… For weal or for woe, the peoples of mankind are knit together far closer than ever before.
Distinction | Good | Government | Life | Life | Man | Men | People | Principles | Public | System | Work | Worth | Government |
There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.
Anger kills both laughter and joy; what greater foe is there than anger?
Mankind |
The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; so wealth will be with those of a like disposition.
Pride is seeing the defects of others, and overlooking our own. Humility is seeing, feeling, and lamenting sin in ourselves; not only past, but present sin; not only actual sin, but the root of it in an evil nature, and all sin without disguise or extenuation, in all its guilt and malignity.
Whenever I spy a fault in another, I am determined to look for two in myself, and they will not be far to seek.”
I never saw Death before, and now I see that it is warring eyes in a woman's form.
Theodore Cuyler, fully Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
"Follow me!" The publican "rose up." This implied immediate action. It was now or never with him. So you must act with prompt obedience. He did the first thing Jesus bade him do. Are you willing to do as much? If not, you are deciding against Christ, and that means death.
One reason the world is not reformed, is, because every man would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself.
Better | Controversy |
We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there is no way of fully understanding the origin moment of the universe we can appreciate the direction of evolution in its larger arc of development as moving from lesser to great complexity in structure and from lesser to greater modes of consciousness. We can also understand the governing principles of evolution in terms of its three movements toward differentiation, inner spontaneity, and comprehensive bonding.
In private prayer we have a far greater advantage as so the exercise of our own gifts and graces and parts that we have in public...in public duties we are more passive, but in private duties we are more active. Now, the more our gifts and parts and graces are exercised, the more they are strengthened and increased. All acts strengthen habits. The more sin is acted, the more it is strengthened. And so it is with our gifts and graces; the more they are acted, the more they are strengthened.
Earth | Enjoyment | Eternal | God | Happy | Imperfection | Men | Mourning | Pain | Present | Prison | Society | Weakness | Society | God |
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
In like manner did the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, surrounded as he is with the splendours of a wide and everlasting monarchy, turn him to our humble habitation; and the footsteps of God manifest in the flesh have been on the narrow spot of ground we occupy; and small though our mansion be amid the orbs and the systems of immensity, hither hath the King of glory bent his mysterious way, and entered the tabernacle of men, and in the disguise of a servant did he sojourn for years under the roof which canopies our obscure and solitary world.
Heart | Object | People | Salvation | Speculation | Sympathy |