This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Sam Shoemaker, fully Samuel "Sam" Moor Shoemaker, III
True spiritual power is the child of two parents: the truth as it is revealed in Jesus and our own experience resulting upon our acceptance of Him and His truth. The objective factor is that whole set of facts and truths, of historic events, and of interpretation of them, which is held by the church and set forth in the Bible. The subjective factor is what happens in the crucible of your life and mine when we accept the set of facts and truths and interpretations, and it begins to work in us.
God | Growth | Hope | Imagination | Miracles | People | Purpose | Purpose | Vision | Work | God |
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Attention | Deeds | Good | Heart | Lord | Obedience | Praise | Purpose | Purpose | Witness | World | Deeds |
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
The soul is torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
To what place can I invite you, then, since I am in you? Or where could you come from, in order to come into me? To what place outside heaven and earth could I travel, so that my God could come to me there, the God who said, I fill heaven and Earth?
Events | Evil | Fear | God | Good | Man | Men | Providence | Purpose | Purpose | World | God |
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux NULL
My burden is light, said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.
Cause | Feelings | God | Happy | Knowledge | Looks | Love | Pleasure | Purpose | Purpose | God |
Saint Paul, aka The Apostle Paul, Paul the Apostle or Saul of Tarsus NULL
Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh, for the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.
Father | Forethought | Honor | Purpose | Purpose | Regard | Will | Child |
Religion directs man to God not as its object but as its end.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man to know what he ought to believe to know what he ought to desire and to know what he ought to do.
Sallust, full name Carus Valerius Sailustius Crispus NULL
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.