Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Arland Gilbert

What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic conquering spirit we get things done.

Ability | Challenge | Character | Day | Dynamic | Enthusiasm | Joy | Man | Miracles | Spirit | Work |

Thomas Hopko

We are here for communion with God who is Love, the One in whose image and likeness each one of us is made. We find this communion by loving as God loves us... The miracle of all miracles is the ability to transform through love the smallest, seemingly insignificant detail of the routine drudgery of everyday existence into paradise; the ability to become ourselves, at each moment, a fresh paradise to those around us, thereby becoming “gods by grace” for those who are “gods” to us. Each person accepts or rejects communion with God in his or her own unique manner... The act of communion comes always as grace. For those who know it, it is not life’s meaning, purpose or goal. It is life itself: God with us making us what God is.

Ability | Character | Existence | God | Grace | Life | Life | Love | Meaning | Miracles | Paradise | Purpose | Purpose | Unique | God |

G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

Miracles | Wisdom |

James William Fulbright

The children who go to bed hungry in a Harlem slum or a West Virginia mining town are not being deprived because no food can be found to give them; they are going to bed hungry because, despite all our miracles of invention and production, we have not yet found a way to make necessities of life available to all of our citizens - including those whose failure is not lack of personal industry or initiative, but only an unwise choice of parents.

Children | Choice | Failure | Industry | Initiative | Invention | Life | Life | Miracles | Parents | Wisdom | Failure |

Robert Heilbroner, fully Robert Louis Heilbroner

The civilization malaise, in a word, reflects the inability of a civilization directed to material improvement - higher incomes, better diets, miracles of medicine, triumphs of applied physics and chemistry - to satisfy the human spirit.

Better | Civilization | Improvement | Miracles | Spirit | Wisdom |

Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather

The Miracles of the Church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

Church | Miracles | Power | Rest |

Charles Darwin, fully Charles Robert Darwin

The more we know of the fixed laws of nature, the more incredible do miracles become.

Miracles | Nature |

Carl Wallace Miller

To the reverent scientist… the simplest features of the world about us are in themselves so awe-inspiring that there seems no need to seek new and greater miracles as evidences of God’s care.

Awe | Care | God | Miracles | Need | World |

Baal Shem Tov, given name Yisroel ben Eliezer

The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.

Little | Man | Miracles | Nothing | World |

Francis Bacon

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, but His ordinary works convince it.

Atheism | God | Miracles |

French Proverbs

There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them.

Faith | Miracles |

Howard Zinn

The money, technology, and human energy now devoted to the military could perform miracles in cleaning up the earth we live on. But the cost of the arms race is not only the enormous waste of resources. There is a psychic cost - the creation of an atmosphere of fear all over the world.

Cost | Earth | Energy | Fear | Miracles | Money | Race | Technology | Waste | World |

James Martineau

Depend upon it, it is not the want of greater miracles but of the soul to perceive such as are allowed us still, that makes us push all the sanctities into the far spaces we cannot reach. The devout feel that wherever God’s hand is, there is miracle.

God | Miracles | Soul |

James Bryant Conant

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Age | Despise | Men | Miracles | Past | Prejudice | Will | Truths |

Jean Anouilh, fully Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh

Real miracles are created by men when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

Courage | God | Intelligence | Men | Miracles |

Joseph Addison

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that decays on growing familiar with its object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by perpetual miracles rising up into its view.

Admiration | Miracles | Object | Passion |

Mother Teresa, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu NULL

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

Kindness | Miracles | Unkindness | Work |

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all reported miracles grow.

Miracles | Sacrifice | Self | Self-sacrifice |