This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Alas, poor shepherd, searching of thy wound, I have by hard adventure found mine own.
Grief |
William (Morley Punshon) McFee
There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
Goodness is the only value that seems in this world of appearances to have any claim to be an end in itself. Virtue is its own reward.
We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure upsurges of fresh spiritual vitality, breaking through and revolting against the hardened structure of the older body, and claiming, in the name of the Spirit, liberty from outward forms and institutions. And we have seen how rapidly they develop their own forms, their own structures of thought, of language, and of organization. It would surely be a very unbiblical view of human nature and history to think -- as we so often, in our pagan way, do -- that this is just an example of the tendency of all things to slide down from a golden age to an age of iron, to identify the spiritual with the disembodied, and to regard visible structure as equivalent to sin. We must rather recognize here a testimony to the fact that Christianity is, in its very heart and essence, not a disembodied spirituality, but life in a visible fellowship, a life which makes such total claim upon us, and so engages our total powers, that nothing less than the closest and most binding association of men with one another can serve its purpose.
Firmness | Grief | Life | Life | Perfection | Pious | Poverty | Pride | Strength | Weakness | Will |
Forsooth, brothers, fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell: fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death: and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them, and the life that is in it, that shall live on and on forever, and each one of you part of it, while many a man's life upon the earth from the earth shall wane.
O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
Grief |
PANDARUS: Well, well! Why, have you any discretion? Have you any eyes? Do you know what a man is? Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man? CRESSIDA: Ay, a minc'd man; and then to be bak'd with no date in the pie, for then the man's date is out.
Poor fellow never joyed since the price of oats rose, it was the death of him.
Hakuin, fully Hakuin Akaku NULL
Those who testify to the truth of the nature of the Self, Have found it by reflecting within themselves.
Kautilya, aka Chanakya or Vishnu Gupta NULL
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
Egon Friedell, born Egon Friedmann
God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.