Great Throughts Treasury

"I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame." - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"With faith and hope and courage we hold our heads erect and with dauntless spirit marshal the working class for the march from Capitalism to Socialism, from Slavery to Freedom, from Barbarism to Civilization." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

"Woman must be given her true place in society by the working class." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

"There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not." - Evelyn Underhill

"This, of course, is what religion is about: this adherence to God, this confident dependence on that which is unchanging. This is the more abundant life which, in its own particular language and own particular way, it calls us to live. Because it is our part in the one life in the whole universe of spirits, our share in the great drive towards Reality, the tendency of all life to seek God Who made it for Himself and now incites and guides it, we are already adapted to it. Just as a fish is adapted to life in the sea. This view of our situation fills us with a certain awed and humble gladness. It delivers us from all niggling fuss about ourselves, prevents us from feeling self-important about our own little spiritual adventures; and yet makes them worthwhile as part of one great spiritual adventure." - Evelyn Underhill

"Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God." - Ezra Taft Benson

"Success in righteousness, the power to avoid deception and resist temptation, guidance in our daily lives, healing of the soul - these are but a few of the promises the Lord has given to those who will come to His word. Does the Lord promise and not fulfill? Surely if He tells us that these things will come to us if we lay hold upon His word, then the blessings can be ours. And if we do not, then the blessings may be lost. However diligent we may be in other areas, certain blessings are to be found only in the scriptures, only in coming to the word of the Lord and holding fast to it as we make our way through the mists of darkness to the tree of life." - Ezra Taft Benson

"Think of the repentance that could take place with lives changed, marriages preserved, and homes strengthened, if pride did not keep us from confessing our sins and forsaking them." - Ezra Taft Benson

"Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny." - Ezra Taft Benson

"Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheepÂ’s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties." - Ezra Taft Benson

"A heroic figure ... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him." - Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

"Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others." - Felix Adler

"Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships." - Felix Adler

"None so deaf as those who will not hear." - Italian Proverbs

"After some while Bilbo became impatient. Well, what is it? he said. The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

"Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien