This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
The church bell sometimes does better work than the sermon.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, born Anne Spencer Morrow
There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
No consenting soul can be made to sin, and so sin is inexcusable.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger
The sin of racial pride still represents the most basic challenge to the American conscience. We cannot dodge this challenge without renouncing our highest moral pretentions.
Challenge | Conscience | Pride | Sin |
The art of correcting scandal is to ignore it; to combat it prejudices your own case.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Man is born to believe, and if no church comes forward with all the title deeds of truths... he will find alters and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
Church | Deeds | Heart | Imagination | Man | Title | Will | Deeds |
What a chimera is man! what a confused chaos! what a subject of contradiction! a professed judge of all things, and ;yet a feeble worm of the earth! the great depository and guardian of truth, and yet a mere huddle of uncertainty! the glory and the scandal of the universe!
Contradiction | Earth | Glory | Man | Scandal | Truth | Uncertainty | Universe |
True repentance consists in the heart being broken for sin and broken from sin. Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.
Heart | Man | Reform | Repentance | Sin |
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.
C. S. Lewis, fully Clive Staples "C.S." Lewis, called "Jack" by his family
I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to “rejoice” as much as by anything else.