This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Jean Baptiste Lacordaire, fully Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Take care that your school runs well.
Care | Impatience |
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
We in the contemporary west may wake up each morning to cast out our sleep and dream experience like so much rubbish. But that is an almost freakish act of alienation. Only western society - and especially in the modern era - has been quite so prodigal in dealing with what is, even by the fictitious measure of our mechanical clocks, a major portion of our lives.
Folly | Impatience | Love | People | Politics |
It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.
They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of an artist lifts a man above the level of the world without delivering him from it.
Feelings | God | Impatience | Important | Poverty | Resentment | Time | God |
No longer could I doubt him true all other men may use deceit; he always said my eyes were blue, and often swore my lips were sweet.
Good | Impatience | Little | Man | Men |
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
Pleasure is by no means an infallible guide, but it is the least fallible.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
Patience perforce with willful choler meeting makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting. I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall, now seeming sweet, convert to bitt'rest gall.
Patience is not to clench your teeth and do nothing. It means to be prescient enough to trust the end result of the process. What is patience? It means looking at the thorns and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so myopic as to see the result. Whoever loves God remains patient, because he knows that it takes time incomplete moon to be full.
Enough | God | Impatience | Means | Patience | Time | Trust | God |
Perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind.
Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)
Distress | Earth | Ends | Harmony | Impatience | Music | Struggle | Truth |
Only those who try to live near God and have formed the habit of faithfulness to Him in the small things of our daily life, can hope in times of need for that special light which shows us our path. To do as well as we can the job immediately before us, is the way to learn what we ought to do next.
Hurry | Impatience | Judgment |