This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Richard Niebuhr, fully Helmut Richard Niebuhr
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Change | Courage | Distinguish | Grace | Serenity | Wisdom |
I. L. Peretz, fully Isaac Leib Peretz, aka Yitskhok Leybush Pertez
A people's memory is history. A people without a history can grow neither wiser nor better.
What we want, above all things, in this age is heartiness and holy simplicity; men who justify the holy impulse of grace in their hearts, and do not keep it back by artificial clogs of prudence and false fear, or the sham pretences of fastidiousness and artificial delicacy. These are they whom God will make His witnesses in all ages. They dare to be holy, dare just as readily to be singular. What God puts in them, that they accept; and when He puts a song, they sing it.
Age | Fastidiousness | God | Grace | Impulse | Justify | Men | Prudence | Prudence | Will | God |
Osho, born Chandra Mohan Jain, also known as Acharya Rajneesh and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh NULL
Intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is one thing -- memory is not intelligence. But the whole of humanity has been deceived for centuries and told indirectly that the memory is intelligence. Your schools, your colleges, your universities are not trying to find your intelligence; they are trying to find out who is capable of memorizing more. And now we know perfectly well that memory is a mechanical thing. A computer can have memory, but a computer cannot have intelligence.
Dada Vaswani, born Jashan Pahalraj Vaswani
I must never forget that every thought I think, every word I utter, every action I perform, every feeling, every emotion that wakes up in me, is recorded in the memory of nature. I might be able to deceive those around me, I may even succeed in deceiving myself. But I cannot deceive nature.
James Baldwin, fully James Arthur Baldwin
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.
Play for young children is not recreation activity,... It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity.... Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met.
Body | Children | Language | Memory | Mind | Play | Recreation | Thinking | Time | Child |
Jean Grou, fully Jean Nicholas Grou
No man has ever yet desired to pray without ceasing, asked for that grace earnestly, and done everything suggested by God for its bestowal, without having obtained it. To suppose such a thing would be manifest absurdity. For who is it who gives you the desire? God, of course. Does He give it you in order that it may stay unfulfilled? That is impossible. He implants within you a desire for something with the intention of giving you that very thing; He will infallibly give it you if you ask for it in the right way; and He begs you, He urges you, He assists you to make the petition.
Desire | Giving | God | Grace | Intention | Man | Order | Right | Will | God |
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Battle | Charity | Enough | Faith | Good | Grace | Health | Hope | Love | Patience | Strength | Work |
Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.
John Piper, fully John Stephen Piper
Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers.