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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Arthur Schnitzler

I trust your wisdom only when it comes from the heart, your goodness when it comes from the mind.

Character | Heart | Mind | Trust | Wisdom |

John H. Vincent, fully John Heyl Vincent

I will this day try to live a simple, sincere, and serene life; repelling promptly every thought of discontent, anxiety, discouragement, impurity, and self-seeking; cultivating cheerfulness, magnanimity, charity, and the habit of holy silence; exercising economy in expenditure, carefulness in conversation, diligence in appointed service, fidelity to every trust, and a childlike trust in God.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Character | Charity | Cheerfulness | Conversation | Day | Diligence | Discontent | Fidelity | God | Habit | Life | Life | Magnanimity | Self | Service | Silence | Thought | Trust | Will | Thought |

Ansel Adams

Not everybody trust paintings but people believe photographs.

People | Trust | Wisdom |

Phillips Brooks

Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life where we shall be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God”; for that, and that alone, is peace.

Day | Duty | God | Life | Life | Nature | Nothing | Peace | Prayer | Supplication | Trust | Wisdom | God |

Richard Cecil

How simply I can trust in man, and how little in God! How unreasonable is a pure act of faith in one like ourselves, if we cannot repose the same faith in God.

Faith | God | Little | Man | Repose | Trust | Wisdom |

Horace Bushnell

By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.

Confidence | God | Means | Self | Self-confidence | Trials | Trust | Wisdom | God |

Theodore Cuyler, fully Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

It is the easiest thing in the world for us to obey God when He command us to do what we like, and to trust Him when the path is all sunshine. The real victory of faith is to trust God in the dark, and through the dark. Let us be assured of this, that if the lesson and the rod are of His appointing, and that His all-wise love has engineered the deep tunnel of trial on the heavenward road, He will never desert us during the discipline. The vital thing for us is not to deny and desert Him.

Discipline | Faith | God | Lesson | Love | Trust | Will | Wisdom | Wise | World | Trial | God |

Joseph Conrad, born Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Heart | Hope | Life | Life | Love | Man | Trust | Wisdom | Woe |

Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Chance | Trust | Wisdom |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

Reverence | Soul | Trust | Wisdom |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

Is it any weakness, pray, to be wrought on by exquisite music? to feel its wondrous harmonies searching the subtlest windings of your soul, the delicate fibres of life where no memory can penetrate, and binding together your whole being, past and present, in one ;unspeakable vibration; melting you in one moment with all the tenderness, all the love, that has been scattered through the toilsome years, concentrating in one emotion of heroic courage or resignation all the hard-learned lessons of self-renouncing sympathy, blending your present joy with past sorrow, and your present sorrow with all your past joy?

Courage | Joy | Life | Life | Love | Memory | Music | Past | Present | Resignation | Self | Sorrow | Soul | Sympathy | Tenderness | Weakness | Wisdom |

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar must needs feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.

Respect | Trust | Wisdom | Respect |

Albert Einstein

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Cooperation | Justice | Men | Trust | Wisdom |

Euripedes NULL

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

Greatness | Life | Life | Nothing | Pride | Trust | Wisdom |

François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon

How different the peace of god from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.

Absolute | Conscience | God | Peace | Purity | Resignation | Righteousness | Soul | Will | Wisdom | World | God |

François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon

If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God, and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.

Effort | Enough | Faith | God | Mind | Need | Perfection | Strength | Trust | Wisdom |

Burke Aaron Hinsdale

Do not trust to what lazy men call the spur of the occasion.

Men | Trust | Wisdom |