This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens.
We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.
Evil |
Profanity is both an unreasonable and an unmanly sin, a violation alike of good taste and good morals; an offence against both man and God. - Some sins are productive of temporary profit or pleasure; but profaneness is productive of nothing unless it be shame on earth, and damnation in hell. It is the most gratuitous of all kinds of wickedness - a sort of pepper-corn acknowledgment of the sovereignty of the devil over those who indulge it.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Give work rather than alms to the poor. The former drives out indolence, the latter industry.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
It is not true that there are no enjoyments in the ways of sin; there are, many and various. - But the great and radical defect of them all is, that they are transitory and unsubstantial, at war with reason and conscience, and always leave a sting behind. We are hungry, and they offer us bread; but it is poisoned bread. We are thirsty, and they offer us drink; but it is from deadly fountains. They may and often do satisfy us for the moment; but it is death in the end. It is only the bread of heaven and the water of life that can so satisfy that we shall hunger no more and thirst no more forever.
One must ask about the delight of opium from one who smokes it.
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
The histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher classes.
Eternal | Evil | Reason | Revelation | Will |
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
We are now supposing the existence of a society where vice is scarcely known.
Evil | Individual | Little |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Man | Meaning | Sound | Understanding |
Thomas R. Kelly, fully Thomas Raymond Kelly
Some men come into holy obedience through the gateway of profound mystical experience. It is an overwhelming experience to fall into the hands of the living God, to be invaded to the depths of one's being by His presence, to be, without warning, wholly uprooted from all earth-born securities and assurances, and to be blown by a tempest of unbelievable power which leaves one's old proud self utterly, utterly defenseless, until one cries, "All Thy waves and thy billows are gone over me" Then is the soul swept into a Loving Center of ineffable sweetness, where calm and unspeakable peace and ravishing joy steal over one.
Absolute | Children | Enough | Eternal | Father | God | Heaven | Life | Life | Men | Obedience | Power | Watchfulness | Will | God |
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity. Humiliation is the most underestimated force in international relations and in human relations. It is when people or nations are humiliated that they really lash out and engage in extreme violence.