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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William Ralph Inge

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love… Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Bereavement | Challenge | Faith | God | Happy | Life | Life | Love | Trust |

Oswald Hoffmann, fully Oswald C. J. Hoffmann

Can anyone think of believing in God without trusting Him? Is it possible to trust in God for the big things like forgiveness and eternal life, and then refuse to trust Him for the little things like clothing and food?

Eternal | Forgiveness | God | Life | Life | Little | Trust | Forgiveness | God | Think |

Peter W. Jedlicka

Unity requires trust and mutual respect.

Respect | Trust | Unity |

Norman Macleod

Courage, brother! Do not stumble, though thy path be as dark as night; there’s a star to guide the humble. Trust in God and do right.

Courage | God | Right | Trust | God |

Mozi or Mo-tze, Mocius or Mo-tzu, original name Mo Di, aka Master Mo NULL

A people only become unmanageable when one tries to lead them with a violent love…. Bit if one approaches them with trust and takes them by the hand, if one lures them forward with riches and drives them from behind with just punishment… there will not be a single one who will not adapt himself to the ruler.

Love | People | Punishment | Riches | Trust | Will | Riches |

Islamic Proverbs

First tie your camel’s knee, then trust to Allah.

Trust |

Frank K. Sonnenberg

Trust is the fabric that binds us together, creating an orderly civilized society from chaos and anarchy… Trust must be carefully constructed, vigorously nurtured, and constantly reinforced.

Anarchy | Society | Trust | Society |

Richard “Rick” Stone

Don’t judge. Just hear what the person has to say. Thoughtfully consider its meaning for him. When you attend to another’s speech in this way, you may come to recognize the miracle of words. This is sacred listening. To such an ear, story, in all of its forms, is transformed into a melodious language. When the listener is this receptive, both he and the teller are elevated to a new realm of communication. This is the foundation of building trust and safety in any relationship.

Language | Listening | Meaning | Relationship | Sacred | Speech | Story | Trust | Words |

Donald Woods Winnicott

Creativity is the retention throughout life of something that belongs properly to infant experience: the ability to create the world. . . . By creative living I mean not getting killed or annihilated all the time by compliance or by reacting to the world that impinges; I mean seeing everything afresh all the time… When we are surprised at ourselves we are being creative, and we find we can trust our own unexpected originality.

Ability | Compliance | Creativity | Experience | Life | Life | Originality | Time | Trust | World |

Bernard Edmonds

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.

Beauty | Courage | Mind | Strength | Trust | Will | Beauty |

Irving Oyle

Whatever you put your trust in can be the precipitating agent for your cure.

Trust |

Aesop NULL

Do not trust flatterers.

Trust |

Aesop NULL

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Advice | Man | Trust |