This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
W. Ian Thomas, fully Walter Ian Thomas
That is the work of God. It is your living faith in the adequacy of the One who is in you, which releases His divine action through you. It is the kind of activity that the Bible calls "good works," as opposed to "dead works."
The pure soul shall mount on native wings . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.
Cause | Consequences | God | Indignation | God | Think |
Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant
Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
Angels | Day | God | Hope | Indignation | Little | Obedience | Rule | God |
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
Die goldene Medina. The accent was not on the golden (except in the sense of some mysterious Light), but on the Medina - that is, the city of hope, the city of deliverance.
Cost | Defeat | Hope | Infamy | Sense | Soul | Struggle | Suffering | Tragedy |
Given such a shape in the final form, one is bound to notice that this rendering, with a fissure at the center, places the account in profound tension with the ideological claims of 2 Samuel 7 and 1 Kings 8 that persist in political propaganda and liturgical affirmation. In sum, the book of Isaiah constitutes, on the basis of lived experience, a profound challenge to a continuing ideological claim of immunity from historical vagary. The insistence of historical vagary about the city requires that the reader must step outside that ideology and make a different set of responses to the lived reality...
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Attract what you desire. If you're experiencing scarcity, anguish, depression, an absence of love- or any inability to attract what you desire- seriously look at how you've been drawing these circumstances into your life.
Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray
A relevant, famous quote from the Tao is "Ruling a country is like frying a small fish". A good chef will tell you that, when frying a fish (especially a small one), if you keep moving the frying pan and flipping the fish, it will fall apart and become tasteless.
Indignation | Quiet |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Take some time to be silent and repeat the sound of God as an inner mantra. Meditation allows you to make conscious contact with your Source and achieve success in every area. If a problem arises, then go within, get very quiet about it and find the answers inside of you.
Experience | Feelings | Prosperity | Responsibility | Suffering | Will |
It is possible, I think, to say that... agriculture formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill.
Business | Failure | Faith | Greed | History | Hope | Indignation | Land | Life | Life | Obligation | People | Present | Right | Study | Failure | Business |
If I solve my dispute with my neighbor by killing him, I have certainly solved the immediate dispute. If my neighbor was a scoundrel, then the world is no doubt better for his absence. But in killing my neighbor, though he may have been a terrible man who did not deserve to live, I have made myself a killer—and the life of my next neighbor is in greater peril than the life of the last. In making myself a killer I have destroyed the possibility of neighborhood.
Death | Freedom | God | Good | Heart | Love | Man | Suffering | World | Wrong | God | Old |
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Forgiveness | Hell | Justice | Light | Suffering | Forgiveness |
For the sake of job creation, in Kentucky, and in other backward states, we have lavished public money on corporations that come in and stay only so long as they can exploit people here more cheaply than elsewhere. The general purpose of the present economy is to exploit, not to foster or conserve.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
Bring out the coffin, let the mourning cry. Let the planes flying in circles high in the sky the message Scratching : He Is Dead, Put beige neck ties of white pigeons from the ground, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday inert, My noon, my midnight, my song, my speech, I thought love was forever: I was wrong. 's stars are not necessary: ??remove each one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun do; Empty Ocean and sweep up the woods; For nothing now can in some good cause.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
The uncritical relations of the dead…
W. E. H. Lecky, fully William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties. It sometimes comprised more than this, but it always included this. It was the opposite of doubt and of the spirit of doubt. What irreverent men called credulity, reverent men called faith; and although one word was more respectful than the other, yet the two words were with most men strictly synonymous.
Age | Character | Contemplation | Imagination | Men | Nature | Suffering | Contemplation | Old |