This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
We live by Faith; but Faith is not the slave of text and legend. Reason’s voice and God’s, Nature’s and Duty’s, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save justice and mercy and humility, a reasonable service of good deeds, pure living, tenderness to human needs, reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see the Master’s footprints in our daily ways? No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, but the calm beauty of an ordered life whose very breathing is unworded praise! A life that stands as all true lives have stood firm-rooted in the faith that God is good.
Beauty | Children | Deeds | Duty | Faith | Father | God | Good | Humility | Justice | Life | Life | Light | Mercy | Nature | Praise | Prayer | Reason | Reverence | Service | Tenderness | Trust | Beauty | God |
Preach faith till you have it; and then, because you have it, you will preach faith.
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Helen Keller. aka Helen Adams Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Achievement | Confidence | Faith | Hope | Nothing | Optimism |
We believe in optimism rather than pessimism, hope rather than despair, learning in the place of dogma, truth instead of ignorance, joy rather than guild or sin, tolerance in the place of fear, love instead of hatred, compassion over selfishness, beauty instead of ugliness and reason rather than blind faith or irrationality.
Beauty | Compassion | Despair | Dogma | Faith | Fear | Hope | Ignorance | Joy | Learning | Love | Optimism | Pessimism | Reason | Selfishness | Sin | Truth | Beauty |
Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, then watching the evidence change.
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ... Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.
It is faith and not reason which impels men to action. Intelligence is content to point out the road but never drives along it.
Action | Faith | Intelligence | Men | Reason |
A.J. Cronin, fully Archibald Joseph "A.J." Cronin
No one in good faith can ever be lost.
It takes vision and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to prove.