Great Throughts Treasury

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John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

Let us not be afraid of debate or dissent - let us encourage it. For if we should ever abandon these basic American traditions in the name of fighting Communism, what would it profit us to win the whole world when we have lost our soul?

Dissent | Fighting | Soul | Wisdom | World | Afraid |

John Angell James

Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is the end of hearing sermons, and not merely to have our taste gratified by genius, eloquence and oratory.

Faith | Genius | Joy | Knowledge | Love | Oratory | Taste | Wisdom |

Herrick Johnson

God is merely tuning the soul as an instrument, in this life. And these joys of the Christian, are only the notes and chords that are sounded out in the preparation - preludes to the perfect harmony that shall flood the soul - forerunners of the perfected and rapturous joy that shall bless the soul, in that exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

Eternal | Glory | God | Harmony | Joy | Life | Life | Soul | Wisdom |

Wanda Landowska

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!

Inspiration | Joy | Learning | Passion | Research | Wisdom | World |

Andrew David Kopkind

To be a revolutionary is to love your life enough to change it, to choose struggle instead of exile, to risk everything with only the glimmering hope of a world to win...Woman loves with her whole soul. To woman love is life, to man it is the joy of life.

Change | Enough | Hope | Joy | Life | Life | Love | Man | Risk | Soul | Struggle | Wisdom | Woman | World |

Abraham Isaac Kook

The soul sings all the time; joy and sweetness are her garments; high-minded tenderness envelops her.

Joy | Soul | Tenderness | Time | Wisdom |

John Masefield

Skill's a joy to any man.

Joy | Man | Skill | Wisdom |

Alexander Maclaren

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it comes most surely unsought and we "being in the way," the angel of God, a bright-haired Joy, is sure to meet us.

Duty | God | Joy | Thinking | Wisdom |

Ambroise de Lombez, Jean de La Peyrie, aka Brother Ambrose, Father Ambrose of Lombez the Enlightenment

By sadness you destroy the divine image in your soul. God is joy. All nature rejoices in him, and would you be sad? A true joy makes the heart fear God.

Destroy | Fear | God | Heart | Joy | Nature | Sadness | Soul | Wisdom | God |

Alexander Maclaren

As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being. God speaks for the most pat in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard.

God | Joy | Little | Love | Silence | Soul | Truth | Wills | Wisdom | God |

George Meredith

There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.

Body | Nothing | Soul | Wisdom |

Theodore T. Munger

The experience of life nearly always works toward the confirmation of faith. It is the total significance of life that it reveals God to man; and life only can do this; neither thought, nor demonstration, nor miracle, but only life, weaving its threads of daily toil and trial and joy into a pattern on which, at last, is inscribed the name of "God."

Experience | Faith | God | Joy | Life | Life | Man | Thought | Wisdom | Trial | God |

Lord Nottingham, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Howard of Effingham

No man’s credit can fall so low but that, if he bear his shame as he should to, and profit by it as he ought to do, it is in his own power to redeem his reputation.

Credit | Man | Power | Reputation | Shame | Wisdom |

Joseph Parker

Religion without joy - it is no religion.

Joy | Religion | Wisdom |

William M. Peck

The acceptance of truth that joy and sorrow, laughter and tears are not confined to any particular time, place or people, but are universally distributed, should make us more tolerant of and more interested in the lives of others.

Acceptance | Joy | Laughter | People | Sorrow | Tears | Time | Truth | Wisdom |

William Lyon Phelps

Religion should be the motor of life, the central heating plant of personality, the faith that gives joy to activity, hope to struggle, dignity to humility, zest to living.

Dignity | Faith | Hope | Humility | Joy | Life | Life | Personality | Religion | Struggle | Wisdom |