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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Donald Culross Peattie

Life is an adventure in experience, and when you are no longer greedy for the last drop of it, it means no more than that you have set your face... to the day when you shall depart.

Adventure | Day | Experience | Life | Life | Means | Wisdom |

Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

Wisdom |

Hugh Walpole, fully Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Play | Wisdom | World |

James Watson, fully James Dewey Watson

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles... [Science moves with][ the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Adventure | Arrogance | Belief | Events | Play | Science | Spirit | Truth | Wisdom |

Peter L. Berger, fully Peter Ludwig Berger

The consciousness of abiding safety in the bosom of the Church is one of the most serious obstacles to an honest confrontation with the Christian faith.

Church | Consciousness | Faith |

Robert Barclay

All true and acceptable worship to God is offered in the inward and immediate moving and drawing of His own Spirit, which is neither limited to places, times, or persons.

God | Spirit | Worship | God |

John Greenleaf Whittier

To worship rightly is to love each other, each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

Love | Prayer | Smile | Wisdom | Worship |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

I say there can be no safety for these States without innovators - without free tongues, and ears willing to hear the tongues.

Wisdom |

George Arthur Buttrick

All true prayer is worship – the ascription of worth to the Eternal. Without adoration, thanksgiving may become a miserliness, petition a selfish clamor, intercession a currying of special favors for our friends, and even contemplation may turn into a refined indulgence.

Contemplation | Eternal | Indulgence | Prayer | Worship | Worth | Contemplation |

Coalition for the Homeless NULL

How can you worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

Man | Worship |

Benjamin Franklin

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Liberty | Little |

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam

Visible worship is not condemned, but God is leased by invisible piety.

God | Piety | Worship | God |